2 Chronicles 3:3 Parallel Translations

This is how Solomon laid the foundation to build God's temple. It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide. (They used the old standard measurement.)(GOD'S WORD®)

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.

ASV:

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

And this was Solomon's foundation for the construction of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

ERV:

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

JPS:

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

WBS:

Now these are the things in which Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

WEB:

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

YLT:

And in these hath Solomon been instructed to build the house of God: The length in cubits by the former measure is sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

2 Chronicles 3:3 Cross References

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Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:3 Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first {b} measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
(b) According to the whole length of the temple,

WES:

3:3 Instructed - By David, and by the Spirit of God. The measure - According to he measure which was first fixed.

MHC:

3:1-17 The building of the temple. - There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in #1Ki 6". It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.

CONC:

Ancient Base Breadth Build Building Construction Cubit Cubits Former Foundation Foundations Instructed Laid Length Measure Measurements Older Position Sixty Solomon Solomon's Standard Temple Threescore Twenty Using Wherein Wide Width

Ancient Base Breadth Building Construction Cubit Cubits First Foundation Foundations House Instructed Laid Measure Measurements Position Sixty Solomon Solomon's Standard Temple Threescore Twenty Using Wherein Wide Width

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