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The porch vestibule that was in front of the nave hall had its length, like the width of the house, as twenty cubits,[a] and its height was one hundred and twenty cubits;[b] and he overlaid the inside with pure gold.

And he paneled the great house with cypress trees and then covered it with fine gold. Then he decorated it with palm trees and chain work. And he overlaid the house with precious stones for decoration, and the gold was from Parvaim.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 About 30 feet, or 9 meters; and in vv. 8, 11, and 13.
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 About 180 feet, or 54 meters.

The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[a] long across the width of the building and twenty[b] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree(A) and chain designs. He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.

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Footnotes

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