"Now these {are the things wherein} Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits aft…" — 2 Chronicles 3:3

2 Chronicles 3:3 · KJV

“Now these {are the things wherein} Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure {was} threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. {instructed: Heb. founded}”

— 2 Chronicles 3:3

Verse 2

And he began to build in the second {day} of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Verse 4

And the porch that {was} in the front {of the house}, the length {of it was} according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height {was} an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 3 — Context

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where {the LORD} appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. {where...: or, which was seen of David his father} {Ornan: also called, Araunah}

And he began to build in the second {day} of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Now these {are the things wherein} Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure {was} threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. {instructed: Heb. founded}

And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:11-19

Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

1 Kings 6:2-3

And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof {was} threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty {cubits}, and the height thereof thirty cubits.