Verse 17
1 Kings 6:17
American Standard Version
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And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], 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.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 6 Context
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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 which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and th...
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And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the...
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And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
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And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round...
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The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was s...
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And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was n...
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The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by windin...
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So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
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And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house...
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And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying,
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Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine or...
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And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
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So 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 unto th...
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And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto...
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And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
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And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there wa...
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And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of...
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And within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and tw...
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So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the or...
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And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar th...
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And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
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And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from t...
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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 was it of the other cherub.
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And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth,...
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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 figures of cherubim and palm-trees...
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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] door-posts were a f...
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So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees an...
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So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, out of a fourth part [of th...
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and two doors of fir-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the ot...
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And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fit...
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And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
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In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.
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And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throug...
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