2 Chronicles 3:4

4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[a] long across the width of the building and twenty[b] cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 3:4 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
4 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.
English Standard Version (ESV)
4 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.
New Living Translation (NLT)
4 The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30 feet high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
The Message Bible (MSG)
4 The porch in front stretched the width of the building, that is, thirty feet; and it was thirty feet high.
American Standard Version (ASV)
4 And the porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
4 The entrance hall in front of [the main room] was 30 feet wide (the same as the width of the temple) and 30 feet high. He covered its inside walls with pure gold.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
4 The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was 30 feet wide; its height was 30 feet; he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
4 The porch in front of the temple was 30 feet across and 30 feet high. Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 3:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 3:4

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).

2 Chronicles 3:4 In-Context

2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).
4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the building and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
5 He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.
6 He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
  • [b]. Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew "and a hundred and twenty"
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