1st Kings Chapter 6 verse 17 Holy Bible
And the house, that is, the temple before `the oracle', was forty cubits `long'.
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And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
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And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
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And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
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And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
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The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
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And forty by the cubit was the house, it `is' the temple before `it'.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - And the house, that is, the temple before it [or, the anterior temple. The portion of the structure before the oracle is sometimes called, as here, "the house;" sometimes (as in ver, 5) "the temple; sometimes (as in ver. 4) "the temple of the house;" or, as here again, "the front temple," לִפְנַי is supposed to be an adjective formed from לִפְנֵי. Thenius, however, supposes that דְּבִיר (oracle) has fallen out of the text. Our author now describes the division of the building into holy and most holy place] was forty cubits long.