1 Kings 6:2 meaning and explanation

The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

1 Kings 6:2, Berean Standard Bible

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This verse gives the dimensions of the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem, roughly ninety feet long, thirty feet wide and forty-five feet high, using the cubit of about eighteen inches. The narrator is describing the project begun in the fourth year of Solomon's reign, a house for the LORD that would replace the portable tabernacle.

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