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class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><a href="/niv/1_kings/6.htm">New International Version</a> The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. <a href="/nlt/1_kings/6.htm">New Living Translation</a> The Temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. <a href="/esv/1_kings/6.htm">English Standard Version</a> The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. <a href="/bsb/1_kings/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. <a href="/kjv/1_kings/6.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/1_kings/6.htm">New King James Version</a> Now the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. <a href="/nasb_/1_kings/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits in its length, and twenty cubits in its width, and its height was thirty cubits. <a href="/nasb/1_kings/6.htm">NASB 1995</a> As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits. <a href="/nasb77/1_kings/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a> As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits. <a href="/lsb/1_kings/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> As for the house which King Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits. <a href="/amp/1_kings/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a> The length of the house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits (90 ft.), its width twenty (30 ft.), and its height thirty cubits (45 ft.). <a href="/csb/1_kings/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high. <a href="/hcsb/1_kings/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. <a href="/asv/1_kings/6.htm">American Standard Version</a> And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. <a href="/cev/1_kings/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> The inside of the LORD's temple was 27 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 13.5 meters high. <a href="/erv/1_kings/6.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/1_kings/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. <a href="/gnt/1_kings/6.htm">Good News Translation</a> Inside it was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. <a href="/isv/1_kings/6.htm">International Standard Version</a> The Temple for the LORD that Solomon was building was 60 cubits long and 20 cubits wide. <a href="/msb/1_kings/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. <a href="/net/1_kings/6.htm">NET Bible</a> The temple King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. <a href="/nheb/1_kings/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> The house which king Solomon built for the LORD, its length was one hundred three feet and four inches, and its breadth thirty-four feet and five inches, and its height fifty-one feet and eight inches. <a href="/wbt/1_kings/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits, and the hight of it thirty cubits. <a href="/web/1_kings/6.htm">World English Bible</a> The house which King Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_kings/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> As for the house that King Solomon has built for YHWH, its length [is] sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty, and its height thirty cubits. <a href="/ylt/1_kings/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> As to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits is its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height. <a href="/slt/1_kings/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And the house which king Solomon built to Jehovah, sixty cubits its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_kings/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height. <a href="/cpdv/1_kings/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Now the house, which king Solomon was building to the Lord, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height. <a href="/nabre/1_kings/6.htm">New American Bible</a> The house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide, and thirty high. <a href="/nrsvce/1_kings/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_kings/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And the house which Solomon built for the LORD was in length sixty cubits and in breadth twenty cubits and in height thirty cubits. <a href="/hpbt/1_kings/6.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And the house that Solomon built for LORD JEHOVAH was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/1_kings/6.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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. <a href="/sep/1_kings/6.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And the house which the king built to the Lord was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits. <a href="/parallel/1_kings/6-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xx9A0AxPaoQ?start=1958" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_kings/6.htm">Temple Construction Begins</a> 1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD. 2<a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: wə·hab·ba·yiṯ (Conj-w, Art:: N-ms) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">The house</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/4428.htm" title="4428: ham·me·leḵ (Art:: N-ms) -- King. From malak; a king.">King</a> <a href="/hebrew/8010.htm" title="8010: šə·lō·mōh (N-proper-ms) -- David's son and successor to his throne. From shalowm; peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor.">Solomon</a> <a href="/hebrew/1129.htm" title="1129: bā·nāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To build. A primitive root; to build.">built</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">for the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/8346.htm" title="8346: šiš·šîm- (Number-cp) -- Sixty. Multiple of shesh; sixty.">was sixty</a> <a href="/hebrew/520.htm" title="520: ’am·māh (N-fs) -- Prolonged from 'em; properly, a mother (below the elbow), i.e. A cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance).">cubits</a> <a href="/hebrew/753.htm" title="753: ’ā·rə·kōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Length. From 'arak; length.">long,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6242.htm" title="6242: wə·‘eś·rîm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Twenty. From eser; twenty; also twentieth.">twenty cubits</a> <a href="/hebrew/7341.htm" title="7341: rā·ḥə·bōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Breadth, width. From rachab; width.">wide,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7970.htm" title="7970: ū·šə·lō·šîm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Thirty. Or shloshiym; multiple of shalowsh; thirty; or thirtieth.">and thirty</a> <a href="/hebrew/520.htm" title="520: ’am·māh (N-fs) -- Prolonged from 'em; properly, a mother (below the elbow), i.e. A cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance).">cubits</a> <a href="/hebrew/6967.htm" title="6967: qō·w·mā·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Height. From quwm; height.">high.</a> 3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/2_chronicles/3-3.htm">2 Chronicles 3:3</a> The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard. <a href="/2_chronicles/2-1.htm">2 Chronicles 2:1</a> Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself. <a href="/2_chronicles/2-3.htm">2 Chronicles 2:3-4</a> Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in. / Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1-2</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. / Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-4.htm">2 Chronicles 3:4</a> The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-8.htm">2 Chronicles 3:8</a> Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-11.htm">2 Chronicles 3:11</a> The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-15.htm">2 Chronicles 3:15</a> In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits. <a href="/2_samuel/7-13.htm">2 Samuel 7:13</a> He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. <a href="/1_kings/8-27.htm">1 Kings 8:27</a> But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built. <a href="/acts/7-47.htm">Acts 7:47-48</a> But it was Solomon who built the house for Him. / However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: <a href="/hebrews/9-1.htm">Hebrews 9:1-2</a> Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. / A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place. <a href="/matthew/12-6.htm">Matthew 12:6</a> But I tell you that One greater than the temple is here. <a href="/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19-21</a> Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” / “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” / But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. <a href="/revelation/21-22.htm">Revelation 21:22</a> But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was three score cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.the house<a href="/ezekiel/40-1.htm">Ezekiel 40:1-41:26</a> In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither… the length According to B.threescore<a href="/ezra/6-3.htm">Ezra 6:3,4</a> In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits; … <a href="/ezekiel/41-1.htm">Ezekiel 41:1</a> Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.<a href="/revelation/21-16.htm">Revelation 21:16,17</a> And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. 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King Solomon, son of David, was chosen to build the temple, fulfilling God's promise to David (<a href="/2_samuel/7-12.htm">2 Samuel 7:12-13</a>). The temple served as the central place of worship for the Israelites and housed the Ark of the Covenant. It symbolized God's presence among His people and was a place for sacrifices and offerings. The temple's construction was a monumental task, requiring skilled labor and materials from various regions, including Lebanon (<a href="/1_kings/5-6.htm">1 Kings 5:6</a>).was sixty cubits long A cubit is an ancient measurement roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 centimeters. Therefore, the temple's length was approximately 90 feet or 27 meters. This dimension reflects the grandeur and significance of the temple as a place of worship. The length of the temple can be compared to the tabernacle, which was 30 cubits long (<a href="/exodus/26-15.htm">Exodus 26:15-30</a>), indicating the temple's greater permanence and importance.twenty cubits wide The width of the temple was about 30 feet or 9 meters. This dimension, along with the others, highlights the temple's rectangular shape, similar to the tabernacle but on a larger scale. The temple's design was divinely inspired, with specific instructions given to Solomon, ensuring it met the requirements for worship and sacrifice (<a href="/1_chronicles/28-11.htm">1 Chronicles 28:11-19</a>).and thirty cubits high The height of the temple was approximately 45 feet or 13.5 meters. This height allowed for a majestic and imposing structure, visible from a distance and symbolizing the exaltation of God. The temple's height also accommodated the two-story design, with chambers surrounding the main hall. The temple's grandeur prefigures the heavenly temple described in <a href="/revelation/21-22.htm">Revelation 21:22</a>, where God's presence is fully realized.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/k/king_solomon.htm">King Solomon</a> The son of King David and Bathsheba, Solomon is renowned for his wisdom and for building the temple in Jerusalem, which became the central place of worship for the Israelites. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_temple.htm">The Temple</a> Also known as Solomon's Temple, it was the first temple built for the LORD in Jerusalem. It served as the primary place of worship and housed the Ark of the Covenant. 3. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The capital city of Israel, chosen by God as the place where His name would dwell. It became the spiritual and political center of the nation.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_significance_of_the_temple.htm">The Significance of the Temple</a> The temple was a physical representation of God's presence among His people. It reminds us of the importance of having a dedicated space for worship and communion with God. <a href="/topical/g/god's_dwelling_place.htm">God's Dwelling Place</a> While the temple was a central place of worship, the New Testament teaches that believers are now the temple of the Holy Spirit. This calls us to live lives that honor God's presence within us. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_obedience_in_worship.htm">The Role of Obedience in Worship</a> Solomon's obedience in building the temple according to God's specifications highlights the importance of following God's instructions in our worship and daily lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_temporary_nature_of_earthly_structures.htm">The Temporary Nature of Earthly Structures</a> The eventual destruction of Solomon's Temple serves as a reminder that earthly structures are temporary, and our ultimate hope should be in the eternal kingdom of God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_kings_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Kings 6</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_1_kings_6_with_archaeology.htm">Given the temple’s grandeur in 1 Kings 6:2–10, how do we reconcile this with the relatively modest archaeological evidence of Solomon’s era? </a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_ezekiel_41_with_1_kings_6.htm">How can Ezekiel 41’s instructions be reconciled with the different layout presented for Solomon’s Temple in 1 Kings 6? </a> <a href="/q/why_do_ezekiel_42_and_1_kings_6_differ.htm">Why do the measurements in Ezekiel 42 seem to conflict with earlier temple designs described in 1 Kings 6? </a> <a href="/q/are_biblical_numbers_accurate.htm">Are biblical numbers accurate?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_kings/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) The length.--By comparison with <a href="/context/exodus/26-16.htm" title="Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.">Exodus 26:16-23</a>, we find that the Temple itself was in all its proportions an exact copy of the Tabernacle, each dimension being doubled, and the whole, therefore, in cubical contents, eight times the size. It was, therefore--whatever measure we take for the cubit--a small building. Taking the usual calculation of eighteen inches for the cubit, the whole would be ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high--not larger than a good-sized parish church, and in proportion not unlike a church of Gothic construction. It is, indeed, curious to note that this likeness is carried out in the existence of the porch (which is even represented in <a href="/2_chronicles/3-4.htm" title="And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.">2Chronicles 3:4</a> as rising into a lofty entrance tower), the division of the house into two parts, like a nave and chancel, the provision of something like aisles (though opening outwards) and of clerestory windows, and the high pitch of the roof. This resemblance is probably not mere coincidence; for in the old Freemasonry, which had a great influence on mediaeval architecture, the plan of Solomon's Temple was taken in all its details as a sacred guide. The "Oracle" or Most Holy place, was lower than the rest, forming an exact cube of thirty feet; the height of the Holy place (sixty feet long and thirty feet wide) is not given, but was probably the same, so that there would be an upper chamber over the whole under the roof--which, like that of the Tabernacle, appears to have been a high-pitched roof--fifteen feet high along the central beam, with sloping sides. This is apparently alluded to in <a href="/2_chronicles/3-9.htm" title="And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.">2Chronicles 3:9</a>, and possibly in <a href="/2_kings/23-12.htm" title="And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and broke them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.">2Kings 23:12</a>, and in the remark of Josephus, "There was another building erected over it, equal in its measures." The Temple was, in fact, only a shrine for the ministering priests--the outer court, or courts, being the place for the great assembly of the congregation--and it relied for magnificence not on size, but on costliness of material and wealth of decoration.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_kings/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 2. - And the house [i.e., not the whole structure, but the main building, exclusive of porch (ver. 3) and side chambers (ver. 5)] which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubits [But what was the length of the cubit? (אָמָהֹ) This unfortunately is by no means certain, as the Jews would seem to have had three different cubits. All the ancient measures, both Jewish and Gentile, were taken from parts of the body. Thus we find a "finger-breadth" (<a href="/jeremiah/52-21.htm">Jeremiah 52:21</a>), "hand-breadth" (<a href="/1_kings/7-26.htm">1 Kings 7:26</a>), "span" (<a href="/1_samuel/17-24.htm">1 Samuel 17:24</a>), and the Greeks had their δάκτυλος πούς and τῆχυς, and the Romans their cubitus, pes, digitus, etc. אָמָה is used in its proper sense (ulna) <a href="/deuteronomy/3-11.htm">Deuteronomy 3:11</a>. Probably at first it signified, like πῆχυς, the length from point of elbow to tip of little or middle finger. But it is obvious that this was an uncertain measure, and hence perhaps arose cubits of different length. According to Gesen. the cubit here mentioned, which was the older or sacred Mosaic cubit (<a href="/2_chronicles/3-3.htm">2 Chronicles 3:3</a>), was six palms, while that of Ezekiel (<a href="/ezekiel/40-5.htm">Ezekiel 40:5</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/43-13.htm">Ezekiel 43:13</a>), the royal Babylonian cubit, was seven, but on this as well as other points the authorities are very far from agreed. "The length of the cubit is one of the most knotty points of Hebrew archaeology" (Dict. Bib. 3, p. 1736). There is a general consensus of opinion, however in favour of understanding the cubit here mentioned as measuring 18 inches. Fergusson (Dict. Bib. 3:1451) considers this to be beyond question. It is certainly noteworthy that the measurements of Kings and Chronicles, of Ezra and Ezekiel, of Josephus and the Talmud, all agree, and we know that Josephus always uses the Greek cubit of 18 inches. Mr. Conder, however, maintains that the Hebrew cubit amounts to no more than sixteen inches. He says, "Maimonides tells us that the temple cubit was of 48 barleycorns, and any one who will take the trouble to measure barleycorns, will find that three go to the inch" - which gives 16 inches for the cubit. To this argument, which is not perhaps of much weight, he adds, what is of much greater moment, that "the Galilean synagogues, measured by it, give round numbers" (pp. 187-8)] and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. [It thus appears that the temple was but a small - compared with many churches, a very small - building. But its purpose and object must be considered. It was not for assemblies of the people. The congregation never met within it, but the worship was offered towards it. It was a place for the Holy Presence, and for the priests who ministered before it.] <a href="/commentaries/1_kings/6-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>The house וְהַבַּ֗יִת (wə·hab·ba·yiṯ) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house that אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that King הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> A king Solomon שְׁלֹמֹה֙ (šə·lō·mōh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8010.htm">Strong's 8010: </a> Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne built בָּנָ֜ה (bā·nāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1129.htm">Strong's 1129: </a> To build for the LORD לַֽיהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel [was] sixty שִׁשִּֽׁים־ (šiš·šîm-) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8346.htm">Strong's 8346: </a> Sixty cubits אַמָּ֥ה (’am·māh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_520.htm">Strong's 520: </a> A mother, a cubit, a door-base long, אָרְכּ֖וֹ (’ā·rə·kōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_753.htm">Strong's 753: </a> Length twenty [cubits] וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים (wə·‘eś·rîm) Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6242.htm">Strong's 6242: </a> Twenty, twentieth wide, רָחְבּ֑וֹ (rā·ḥə·bōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7341.htm">Strong's 7341: </a> Breadth, width and thirty וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים (ū·šə·lō·šîm) Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7970.htm">Strong's 7970: </a> Thirty, thirtieth cubits אַמָּ֖ה (’am·māh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_520.htm">Strong's 520: </a> A mother, a cubit, a door-base high. קוֹמָתֽוֹ׃ (qō·w·mā·ṯōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6967.htm">Strong's 6967: </a> Height <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/1_kings/6-2.htm">1 Kings 6:2 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-2.htm">OT History: 1 Kings 6:2 The house which king Solomon built (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_kings/6-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 6:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 6:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_kings/6-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 6:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 6:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>