Bible Strands
1 Kings 6:2
The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator addresses the reader while recording the commencement of the temple project in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, during the second month called Ziv.
The words — The verb בָּנָה (ba.Nah) indicates the active construction of the structure, and אַמָּה ('a.Mah) establishes the cubit as the unit for every dimension listed.
The thread — Dimensions for sacred architecture appear in Ezra 6:3 concerning the rebuilt sanctuary, and later temple measurements are recorded in Ezekiel 41:1.
Why it lands — The passage demands precise attention to the stated proportions without supplying interpretive commentary on their symbolic meaning.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
- Ezekiel 41:1 Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
- Ezra 6:3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
- Revelation 21:16 The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.