He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. These are Solomon’s foundations[a] for building God’s temple: the length[b] was 90 feet,[c] and the width 30 feet.[d] 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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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:3 Tg reads The measurements which Solomon decreed
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:3 Lit length—cubits in the former measure
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:3 Lit 60 cubits
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:3 Lit 20 cubits
  5. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Lit 20 cubits
  6. 2 Chronicles 3:4 LXX, Syr; MT reads 120 cubits
  7. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Lit 20 cubits

He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.(A)

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). 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:3 That is, about 90 feet long and 30 feet wide or about 27 meters long and 9 meters wide
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty