1 Kings 6:17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

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

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

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

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

International Standard Version
The rest of the main nave in the front was 40 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.

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

Cross References

1 Kings 6:16
And 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.

1 Kings 6:18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

2 Chronicles 3:5
And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

Ezekiel 41:2
And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

1Ki 6:15-22. The Ceiling and Adorning of It.

15-21. he built the walls of the house within—The walls were wainscotted with cedar-wood; the floor, paved with cypress planks; the interior was divided (by a partition consisting of folding doors, which were opened and shut with golden chains) into two apartments—the back or inner room, that is, the most holy place, was twenty cubits long and broad; the front, or outer room, that is, the holy place, was forty cubits. The cedar-wood was beautifully embellished with figures in relievo, representing clusters of foliage, open flowers, cherubims, and palm trees. The whole interior was overlaid with gold, so that neither wood nor stone was seen; nothing met the eye but pure gold, either plain or richly chased.