2 Chronicles 3:2-4
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. 3 These are Solomon’s foundations[a] for building God’s temple: the length[b] was 90 feet,[c] and the width 30 feet.[d] 4 The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was 30 feet[e] wide; its height was 30 feet;[f][g] he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold.
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- 2 Chronicles 3:3 Tg reads The measurements which Solomon decreed
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 Lit length—cubits in the former measure—
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 Lit 60 cubits
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 Lit 20 cubits
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 Lit 20 cubits
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 LXX, Syr; MT reads 120 cubits
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 Lit 20 cubits
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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