2 Chronicles 3:4

2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

3 This is the foundation ^awhich Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits.

4 And the ^avestibule that was in front of¹ the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was² one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5 ^aThe larger¹ room he ^bpaneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it.

6 And he decorated the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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2 Chronicles 3:4

The height was a hundred and twenty - Some think this should be twenty only; but if the same building is spoken of as in I Kings 6:2, the height was only thirty cubits. Twenty is the reading of the Syriac, the Arabic, and the Septuagint in the Codex Alexandrinus. The MSS. give us no help. There is probably a mistake here, which, from the similarity of the letters, might easily occur. The words, as they now stand in the Hebrew text, are meah veesrim , one hundred and twenty. But probably the letters in meah , a hundred, are transposed for ammah , a cubit, if, therefore, the aleph be placed after the mem , then the word will be meah one hundred; if before it the word will be ammah , a cubit; therefore ammah esrim will be twenty cubits; and thus the Syriac, Arabic, and Septuagint appear to have read. This will bring it within the proportion of the other measures, but a hundred and twenty seems too great a height.

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