The Furnishings for the Temple

41 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

Other Translations of 2 Chronicles 4:1

New International Version

The Furnishings for the Temple

41 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.That is, about 30 feet long and wide and 15 feet high or about 9 meters long and wide and 4.5 meters high

English Standard Version

The Furnishings for the Temple

41 He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubitsA cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

The Message

The Furnishings for the Temple

41 He made the Bronze Altar thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and ten feet high.

New King James Version

The Furnishings for the Temple

41 Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

New Living Translation

The Furnishings for the Temple

41 Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 4:1

Chapter Contents

The furniture of the temple.

Here is a further account of the furniture of God's house. Both without doors and within, there was that which typified the grace of the gospel, and shadowed out good things to come, of which the substance is Christ. There was the brazen altar. The making of this was not mentioned in the book of Kings. On this all the sacrifices were offered, and it sanctified the gift. The people who worshipped in the courts might see the sacrifices burned. They might thus be led to consider the great Sacrifice, to be offered in the fulness of time, to take away sin, and put an end to death, which the blood of bulls and goats could not possibly do. And, with the smoke of the sacrifices, their hearts might ascend to heaven, in holy desires towards God and his favour. In all our devotions we must keep the eye of faith fixed upon Christ. The furniture of the temple, compared with that of the tabernacle, showed that God's church would be enlarged, and his worshippers multiplied. Blessed be God, there is enough in Christ for all.