The Bronze Altar and Molten Sea
2 Chronicles 4:1
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.The altar was approximately 30 feet in length and width and 15 feet high (9.1 meters in length and width and 4.6 meters high).
- KJV
- Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
- WEB
- Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
- ASV
- Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
- LSV
- And he makes an altar of bronze: twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.
- YLT
- And he maketh an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.
- DBY
- And he made a brazen altar: its length was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits.
- DRC
- He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
- GNV
- And hee made an altar of brasse twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie.
- JPS
- Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
- LXXE
- And he made a brazen altar, the length of it twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, and the height ten cubits.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיַּ֨עַשׂ֙ מִזְבַּ֣ח נְחֹ֔שֶׁת עֶשְׂרִ֤ים אַמָּה֙ אָרְכּ֔וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים אַמָּ֖ה רָחְבּ֑וֹ וְעֶ֥שֶׂר אַמּ֖וֹת קוֹמָתֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἐποίησε θυσιαστήριον χαλκοῦν, εἴκοσι πήχεων τὸ μῆκος, καὶ εἴκοσι πήχεων τὸ εὖρος, καὶ δέκα πήχεων τὸ ὕψος.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Kings 8:64On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze…
- Ezekiel 43:13–17These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar: The…
- 1 Kings 9:25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
- Exodus 27:1–8“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high. Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay…
- 2 Kings 16:14–15He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar. Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah…
- 2 Chronicles 1:5But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.
- 1 Kings 8:22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
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