1 Kings 6:17

17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits 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 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house and the walls of the ceiling; and he covered them on the inside with wood and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

16 And he built twenty cubits on the end of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar; and he built an oracle in the house, which is the holy of holies.

17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with wild gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.

19 And he prepared the oracle in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.