Discovery Box1 Kings 6:3 
Context6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet 1 long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet 2 wide, extending out from the front of the temple.
1 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 He made a colonnade 3 75 feet 4 long and 45 feet 5 wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. 6
1 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
2 tn Heb “ten cubits.”
3 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”
4 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
5 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
6 tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.
