1 Kings 6:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 28:11 : 11 Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;
  • 2 Chr 3:3-4 : 3 And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. 4 And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.
  • Ezek 41:15 : 15 And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;
  • Matt 4:5 : 5 Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,
  • John 10:23 : 23 And Jesus was walking in the Temple, in Solomon's covered way.
  • Acts 3:10-11 : 10 And they saw that it was the man who made requests for money at the door of the Temple, and they were full of wonder and surprise at what had taken place. 11 And while he kept his hands on Peter and John, all the people came running together to the covered way which is named Solomon's, full of wonder.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

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    16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

    17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

  • 2 Chr 3:3-4
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    3 And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

    4 And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

  • 6 And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

  • Ezek 41:1-5
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    1 And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.

    2 And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

    3 And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.

    4 And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

    5 Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.

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    10 And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.

    11 And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.

    12 And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.

    13 And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;

    14 And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide.

    15 And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;

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    47 And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.

    48 Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.

    49 The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.

  • 1 Kgs 6:4-6
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    4 And for the house he made windows, with network across.

    5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

    6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

  • 20 And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

  • Ezek 42:7-8
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    7 And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

    8 For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.

  • Ezek 42:2-4
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    2 On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

    3 Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

    4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

  • Ezek 40:9-13
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    9 Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.

    10 And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.

    11 And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;

    12 And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.

    13 And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.

  • 36 Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • 8 And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

  • 15 And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.

  • 21 And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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    29 And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures:

    30 And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • 33 And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • 16 Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.

  • 10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

  • 7 And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

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    12 And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;

    13 And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.

  • 21 The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.

  • 8 And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

  • 25 And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

  • 12 The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.