2 Chronicles 3:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.”

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BSBPD

“The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“As to the porch that <FI>is<Fi> on the front, the length <FI>is<Fi> by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Chronicles 3:4 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:17They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the house of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
  2. John 10:23and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
  3. Acts 3:11While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.
  4. Acts 5:12The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

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