Bible verse
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
1 Kings 6:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Kings 6.
13 And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
14 So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
15 He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
17 And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
19 Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
KJV
And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
ASV
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.
ERV
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.
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