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2 Chronicles 4:1-2
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2 Chronicles 4:1-2
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Furnishing the Temple(A)
4 Solomon[a] also constructed a bronze[b] altar 20 cubits[c] long, 20 cubits[d] wide, and ten cubits[e] high. 2 He crafted a circular sea of cast metal 10 cubits[f] from rim to rim and five cubits[g] tall. A line 30 cubits[h] long surrounded it.
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- 2 Chronicles 4:1 Lit. Then he
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 Or brass
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 I.e. about 30 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 I.e. about 30 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 I.e. about 15 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 I.e. about 15 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 I.e. about seven and a half feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 I.e. about 45 feet, perhaps its external circumference; a cubit was about eighteen inches
2 Chronicles 4:1-2
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2 Chronicles 4:1-2
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The Temple’s Furnishings(A)
4 He made a bronze altar(B) twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.[a] 2 He made the Sea(C) of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits[b] high. It took a line of thirty cubits[c] to measure around it.
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- 2 Chronicles 4:1 That is, about 30 feet long and wide and 15 feet high or about 9 meters long and wide and 4.5 meters high
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters
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