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1 Kings 6:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long. "

1 Kings 6:17

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15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood. He covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

16 He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built this within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

17 In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.

18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of the LORD’s covenant there.

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1 Kings 7:2

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"For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars."

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1 Kings 7:6

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"He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them."

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2 Chronicles 3:8

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"He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents."

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2 Chronicles 3:4

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"The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold."

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Ezekiel 41:2

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"The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits."

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2 Chronicles 3:15

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"Also he made before the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits."

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From This Chapter

1 Kings 6:1

"In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the LORD’s house."

1 Kings 6:2

"The house which King Solomon built for the LORD had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits."

1 Kings 6:3

"The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house."

1 Kings 6:4

"He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house."

1 Kings 6:5

"Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around."

1 Kings 6:6

"The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house."

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