Sinai1 Kings 6:17
World English Bible
In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
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1 Kings 6:17 in other translations
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.
1 Kings 6:17 in context
- 15He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.
- 16He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
- 17In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
- 18There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
- 19He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.