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2 Chronicles 3:4
2 Chronicles 3:4 is verse 4 of 2 Chronicles chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
20 cubits is approximately 30 feet or 9.1 meters; also in verses 8, 11, and 13.
Some LXX and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew 120 cubits high (approximately 180 feet or 54.9 meters)
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
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2 Chronicles 3:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3 The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
4 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.
5 He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
6 He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 10:23and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
Acts 3:11While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.
Acts 5:12The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.