1 Kings 6:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits wide, across the width of the house. Its depth was ten cubits in front of the house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The length of the vestibule in front of the temple was twenty cubits, equal to the width of the house, and its depth in front of the house was ten cubits.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

Common English Bible

³ The porch in front of the temple’s main hall was thirty feet long. It ran across the whole width of the temple and extended fifteen feet in front of the temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And a portico was before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, in accord with the measure of the width of the temple. And it had ten cubits of width before the face of the temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And there was a porch before the temple of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth before the face of the temple.

1 Kings 6:3 Cross References

1 Kings 6:2

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

1 Kings 6:4

For the house he made windows with recessed frames.

1 Kings 7:12

The great court had three courses of dressed stone to one layer of cedar beams all around; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.

1 Kings 7:21

He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and called it Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called it Boaz.

1 Chronicles 28:11

Then David gave his son Solomon the plan of the vestibule and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the cover,

Ezekiel 40:48

Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the posts of the vestibule, five cubits deep on either side, and the width of the gate between the posts was fourteen cubits, and the shoulders of the gate were three cubits wide on either side.

Ezekiel 41:15

Then he measured the width of the building facing the yard at the west, together with its galleries on either side, one hundred cubits. The nave of the temple’s interior and the outer vestibule

Matthew 4:5

Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,

John 10:23

and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.