17And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.


In Context

14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

1 Kings 6:17 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:17The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:17And the house, that [is,] the temple before it, was forty cubits [long. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:17And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:17And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle , was forty cubits long .

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:17And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.