Verse 17
1 Kings 6:17
Darby Translation
17
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אַרְבָּעִ֥ים בָּ/אַמָּ֖ה הָיָ֣ה הַ/בָּ֑יִת ה֖וּא הַ/הֵיכָ֥ל לִ/פְנָֽ/י
English Translation
And forty cubits was the house; it was the temple before.
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Chapter 6 Context
1
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come ou...
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And the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth,...
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And the porch, in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the hou...
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And for the house he made closed windows with fixed lattices.
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And against the wall of the house he built floors round about, [against] the walls of the house, rou...
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The lowest floor was five cubits broad, and the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was s...
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And the house, when it was being built, was built of stone entirely made ready before it was brought...
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The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [floor] was in the right side of the house; and they...
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And he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
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And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the t...
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And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon saying,
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As to this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and practise mine ordina...
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and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
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And Solomon built the house and finished it.
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And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the...
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And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house, both floor and walls, with boards of...
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And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
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And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; t...
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And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of...
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And the oracle within was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits i...
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and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and shut off the oracle in front with chains o...
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And the whole house he overlaid with gold, the whole house entirely; also the whole altar that was b...
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And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood, ten cubits high;
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and one wing of the cherub was five cubits, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub, ten cubits...
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and the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
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The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so of the other cherub.
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And he set the cherubim in the midst of the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretche...
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And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved sculptures of cherubim, and palm-tr...
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And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
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And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel [and] side posts were the...
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The two doors were of olive-wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, and palm-trees and hal...
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And he also made for the doorway of the temple posts of olive-wood, of the fourth part [of the bread...
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And the two folding-doors were of cypress-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the...
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And he carved on them cherubim, and palm-trees, and half-open flowers; and overlaid them with gold f...
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And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar-beams.
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In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Zif;
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and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished in all...
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