Scripture · Old Testament
1 Kings 6:17
1 Kings 6:17 is verse 17 of 1 Kings chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
40 cubits is approximately 60 feet or 18.3 meters.
King James Version
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
World English Bible
In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
Read in context
1 Kings 6:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
16 He partitioned off the 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 And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
19 Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
Read all of 1 Kings 6Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).