The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
Parallel translations
- WEB The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV Now the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
- NASB 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.
- NLT The Temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
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Quick answer
The temple measured sixty cubits long, twenty wide, and thirty high. These dimensions describe a modest yet dignified structure.
Overview
Roughly twice the size of the tabernacle, the temple followed the same basic proportions in a permanent form. Its measured design reflects the order and holiness appropriate to God's dwelling. The earthly temple was a copy and shadow of heavenly realities, fulfilled in Christ and the heavenly sanctuary (Hebrews 8:5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ezek 41:1–15Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
- Ezek 40:1–41In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
- Rev 21:16–17The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
- Ezra 6:3–4In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
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Solomon's glory, wisdom, and temple where God's presence dwells are a shadow of the greater Son of David — 'one greater than Solomon is here' — and of the true Temple, Christ himself.
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