1 Kings 6:2-3
2 aThe house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. 3The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house. 2 Chronicles 3:3-4
3These are Solomon’s cmeasurements ▼▼Syriac; Hebrew foundations
for building the house of God: ethe length, in cubits ▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, ▼▼Compare 1 Kings 6:3; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. Ezekiel 41:13-15
13Then he measured the temple, ha hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; 14also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.15Then he measured the length of ithe building facing the yard that was at the back and jits galleries ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is unknown; also verse 16
on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court,
Revelation of John 21:16
16The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. ▼▼About 1,380 miles; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters
Its length and width and height are equal.
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