1 Kings 6:17
 1 Kings 6:17 
New International Version (©2011)
The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The main room of the Temple, outside the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The rest of the main nave in the front was 40 cubits long.

NET Bible (©2006)
The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The 60-foot-long room at the front of the temple served as the main hall.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

American King James Version
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

American Standard Version
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle , was forty cubits long .

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long.

Darby Bible Translation
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

English Revised Version
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

World English Bible
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

Young's Literal Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:15-38 See what was typified by this temple. 1. Christ is the true Temple. In him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead; in him meet all God's spiritual Israel; through him we have access with confidence to God. 2. Every believer is a living temple, in whom the Spirit of God dwells, 1Co 3:16. This living temple is built upon Christ as its Foundation, and will be perfect in due time. 3. The gospel church is the mystical temple. It grows to a holy temple in the Lord, enriched and beautified with the gifts and graces of the Spirit. This temple is built firm, upon a Rock. 4. Heaven is the everlasting temple. There the church will be fixed. All that shall be stones in that building, must, in the present state of preparation, be fitted and made ready for it. Let sinners come to Jesus as the living Foundation, that they may be built on him, a part of this spiritual house, consecrated in body and soul to the glory of God.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - And the house, that is, the temple before it [or, the anterior temple. The portion of the structure before the oracle is sometimes called, as here, "the house;" sometimes (as in ver, 5) "the temple; sometimes (as in ver. 4) "the temple of the house;" or, as here again, "the front temple," לִפְנַי is supposed to be an adjective formed from לִפְנֵי. Thenius, however, supposes that דְּבִיר (oracle) has fallen out of the text. Our author now describes the division of the building into holy and most holy place] was forty cubits long.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the house, that is, the temple before it,.... The holy place, which was before the of holies:

was forty cubits long; and which, with the most holy place, being twenty cubits, as in the preceding verse, made the length of the whole house sixty cubits, as in 1 Kings 6:2.


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The Temple's Interior
15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. 17And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

1 Kings 6:16 He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
1 Kings 6:18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
2 Chronicles 3:5 He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.
Ezekiel 41:2 The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits wide. He also measured the main hall; it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.