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1 Kings 6:2-10
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2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet[a] long, 30 feet[b] wide, and 45 feet[c] high. 3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet[d] long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet[e] wide, extending out from the front of the temple. 4 He made framed windows for the temple. 5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and Holy Place and constructed side rooms in it.[f] 6 The bottom floor of the extension was 7½ feet[g] wide, the middle floor 9 feet[h] wide, and the third floor 10½ feet[i] wide. He made ledges[j] on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.[k] 7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry[l] were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built. 8 The entrance to the bottom[m] level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up[n] to the middle floor and then on up to the third[o] floor. 9 He finished building the temple[p] and covered it[q] with rafters[r] and boards made of cedar.[s] 10 He built an extension all around the temple; it was 7½ feet high[t] and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:2 tn Heb “60 cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.
  2. 1 Kings 6:2 tn Heb “20 [cubits].”
  3. 1 Kings 6:2 tn Heb “30 cubits.”
  4. 1 Kings 6:3 tn Heb “20 cubits.”
  5. 1 Kings 6:3 tn Heb “10 cubits.”
  6. 1 Kings 6:5 tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”
  7. 1 Kings 6:6 tn Heb “five cubits.”
  8. 1 Kings 6:6 tn Heb “six cubits.”
  9. 1 Kings 6:6 tn Heb “7 cubits.”
  10. 1 Kings 6:6 tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”
  11. 1 Kings 6:6 tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”
  12. 1 Kings 6:7 tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.
  13. 1 Kings 6:8 tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.
  14. 1 Kings 6:8 tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”
  15. 1 Kings 6:8 tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashelishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashelishim, “the thirty”).
  16. 1 Kings 6:9 tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”
  17. 1 Kings 6:9 tn Heb “the house.”
  18. 1 Kings 6:9 tn The word occurs only here; the precise meaning is uncertain.
  19. 1 Kings 6:9 tn Heb “and rows with cedar wood.”
  20. 1 Kings 6:10 tn Heb “5 cubits.” This must refer to the height of each floor or room.
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1 Kings 6:2-10
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2 The temple(A) that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.[a] 3 The portico(B) at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,[b] and projected ten cubits[c] from the front of the temple. 4 He made narrow windows(C) high up in the temple walls. 5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.(D) 6 The lowest floor was five cubits[d] wide, the middle floor six cubits[e] and the third floor seven.[f] He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

7 In building the temple, only blocks dressed(E) at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool(F) was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

8 The entrance to the lowest[g] floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third. 9 So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar(G) planks. 10 And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:2 That is, about 90 feet long, 30 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 27 meters long, 9 meters wide and 14 meters high
  2. 1 Kings 6:3 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 16 and 20
  3. 1 Kings 6:3 That is, about 15 feet or about 4.5 meters; also in verses 23-26
  4. 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verses 10 and 24
  5. 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 9 feet or about 2.7 meters
  6. 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters
  7. 1 Kings 6:8 Septuagint; Hebrew middle
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