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
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
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