1 Kings 6:17

A Conservative Version

And the house, that is, the temple in front of [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

Cross References

1 Kings 6:16

And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]. He built [them] for it inside, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

1 Kings 6:18

And there was cedar on the house inside, carved with knops and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone seen.

2 Chronicles 3:5

And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains.

Ezekiel 41:2

And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits. And the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. And he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.