1 Kings 6:17

17 The main room, the one in front of the Most Holy Place, was sixty feet long.

1 Kings 6:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 6:17

And the house, that [is], the temple before it
The holy place, which was before the of holies:

was forty cubits [long];
and which, with the most holy place, being twenty cubits, as in the preceding verse, made the length of the whole house sixty cubits, as in ( 1 Kings 6:2 ) .

1 Kings 6:17 In-Context

15 The inside walls were covered from floor to ceiling with cedar boards. The floor was made from pine boards.

16 A room thirty feet long was built in the back part of the Temple. This room, called the Most Holy Place, was separated from the rest of the Temple by cedar boards which reached from floor to ceiling.

17 The main room, the one in front of the Most Holy Place, was sixty feet long.

18 Everything inside the Temple was covered with cedar, which was carved with pictures of flowers and plants. A person could not see the stones of the wall, only the cedar.

19 Solomon prepared the inner room at the back of the Temple to keep the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord.