📖WEB · 1 Kings 6:17
What does 1 Kings 6:17 mean?
"In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits."
— 1 Kings 6:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.
He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.
In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.
Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.
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