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 sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].

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 knobs and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.

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