He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
- KJV Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
- NKJV Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.
- NASB Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and ten cubits in height.
- NLT Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.
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Solomon makes a great bronze altar, twenty cubits square and ten high. A massive altar is provided for sacrifice.
Overview
The huge bronze altar in the temple court was the place for the burnt offerings central to Israel's worship. Its scale matched the grandeur of the temple and the volume of sacrifice. This altar of continual offering points forward to Christ, the final sacrifice who fulfills all the offerings it bore.
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- 1 Kgs 8:64On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
- Ezek 43:13–17These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- 2 Kgs 16:14–15He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar.
- 1 Kgs 9:25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
- 1 Kgs 8:22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
- Exod 27:1–8“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- 2 Chr 1:5But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.
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