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


In Context

14 So Solomon built the temple and completed it.

15 He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of pine.

16 He partitioned off 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 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

18 The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.

19 He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.

1st Kings 6:17 in Other Translations

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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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