Discovery Box1 Kings 6:2 
Context6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 1 long, 30 feet 2 wide, and 45 feet 3 high.
1 Kings 7:16
Context7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. 4
1 Kings 7:19
Context7:19 The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high. 5
1 Kings 11:8
Context11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 6
1 Kings 15:14
Context15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. 7
1 tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
3 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
4 tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”
5 tn Heb “the capitals which were on the top of the pillars were the work of lilies, in the porch, four cubits.” It is unclear exactly what dimension is being measured.
6 tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”
7 tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the
