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


In Context

14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roots, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

16 And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.

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

18 And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

19 And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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