1 Kings 6:17
in 1 Kings 6And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.
KJV
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
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This verse in 1 Kings 6
Commentary
5 notes on this verseWe have said that the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was a type of the present church. Hence it was rightly forty cubits long, for this number is often used to signify the present labor of the faithful, just as the number …
This site's exposition
built the house, and finished it
on 1 Kings 6:14-22
The oracle Solomon builds within the house is a perfect cube, twenty cubits in length, breadth and height, overlaid inside with pure gold along with the altar of cedar standing before it. Commentators have long set that cube beside the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21:16, the only other cube given equal length, breadth and height in Scripture, reading the innermost room where God dwelt with Israel as a small pattern of where God will dwell with his people at the end. Between the cube and the outer walls the whole house is overlaid with gold, floor to ceiling, until Solomon had finished all the house.
This site's exposition
forty cubits long
The main hall, the Holy Place, ran forty cubits, and with the twenty of the inner sanctuary it makes the sixty cubits of verse 2, as John Gill counts. Bede reads the forty as the present labor of the faithful.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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 1Ki 6:2.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The cedar-wood was beautifully embellished with figures in relievo, representing clusters of foliage, open flowers, cherubims, and palm trees. The whole interior was overlaid with gold, so that neither wood nor stone was seen; nothing met the eye but pure gold, either plain or richly chased.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים | vearbaim | and forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| בָּאַמָּ֖ה | baamah | by the cubit | H520 → | 247 times |
| הָיָ֣ה | hayah | it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| הַבָּ֑יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| ה֖וּא | hu' | that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| הַהֵיכָ֥ל | haheikhal | [is] the temple | H1964 → | 80 times |
| לִפְנָֽי׃ | lifnai | <to> before me | H6440 → | 2123 times |
וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםand forty
vearbaimH705 →136 times
בָּאַמָּ֖הby the cubit
baamahH520 →247 times
הָיָ֣הit was
hayahH1961 →3559 times
הַבָּ֑יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
ה֖וּאthat
hu'H1931 →1879 times
הַהֵיכָ֥ל[is] the temple
haheikhalH1964 →80 times
לִפְנָֽי׃<to> before me
lifnaiH6440 →2123 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Kings
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 1.10; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.