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He began to build on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign. These are Solomon’s measurements[a] for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits. The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, across the width of the house;[b] and its height was one hundred twenty cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:3 Syr: Heb foundations
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Compare 1 Kings 6.3: Meaning of Heb uncertain

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