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2 Chronicles 3:2-4
Common English Bible
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
Common English Bible
2 He began building in the second month[a] of the fourth year of his rule. 3 Solomon laid the foundations[b] for these structures in order to build the temple of God. The length according to the old standard of measurement was ninety feet and the width thirty feet. 4 Across the front of the temple[c] was a porch as long as the temple was and thirty feet wide, and thirty feet[d] high. He covered the inside walls with pure gold.
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- 2 Chronicles 3:2 LXX; MT adds on the second (day).
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 Syr the measurements
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 LXX; cf 1 Kgs 6:3
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 LXX, Syr; MT one hundred eighty feet
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
New International Version
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
New International Version
2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.(A)
3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide[a](B) (using the cubit of the old standard). 4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[b] long across the width of the building and twenty[c] cubits high.
He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 That is, about 90 feet long and 30 feet wide or about 27 meters long and 9 meters wide
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
King James Version
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
King James Version
2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
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