1 Kings 6:3
Good News Translation
The entrance room was 15 feet deep and 30 feet wide, as wide as the sanctuary itself.

New Revised Standard Version
The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits wide, across the width of the house. Its depth was ten cubits in front of the house.

Contemporary English Version
A four-and-a-half-meter porch went all the way across the front of the temple.

New American Bible
The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits from side to side along the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.

1 Chronicles 28:11 And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,

2 Chronicles 3:3,4 Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits. . . .

Ezekiel 41:15 And he measured the length of the building over against it, which was separated at the back of it: and the galleries on both sides a hundred cubits: and the inner temple, and the porches of the court.

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

John 10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

Acts 3:10,11 And they knew him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him. . . .

Context
Temple Construction Begins
2And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height. 3And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.4And he made in the temple oblique windows.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:2
And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

1 Kings 6:4
And he made in the temple oblique windows.

1 Kings 7:21
And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple: and when he had set up the pillar on the right hand, he called the name thereof Jachin: in like manner he set up the second pillar, and called the name thereof Booz.

1 Chronicles 28:11
And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch, and of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of the inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,

2 Chronicles 3:4
And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

Ezekiel 40:48
And he brought me into the porch of the temple: and he measured the porch five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

1 Kings 6:2
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