Discovery Box2 Chronicles 3:4 
Context3:4 The porch in front of the main hall was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple, 1 and its height was 30 feet. 2 He plated the inside with pure gold.
2 Chronicles 4:2
Context4:2 He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” 3 It measured 15 feet 4 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet 5 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 6
2 Chronicles 5:7
Context5:7 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its assigned 7 place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs.
2 Chronicles 34:24
Context34:24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 34:28
Context34:28 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 8 You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.
1 tc Heb “and the porch which was in front of the length corresponding to the width of the house, twenty cubits.” The phrase הֵיכַל הַבַּיִת (heykhal habbayit, “the main hall of the temple,” which appears in the parallel account in 1 Kgs 6:3) has been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton after עַל־פְּנֵי (’al-pÿney, “in front of”). Note that the following form, הָאֹרֶךְ (ha’orekh, “the length”), also begins with the Hebrew letter he (ה). A scribe’s eye probably jumped from the initial he on הֵיכַל to the initial he on הָאֹרֶךְ, leaving out the intervening letters in the process.
2 tc The Hebrew text has “one hundred and twenty cubits,” i.e. (assuming a cubit of 18 inches) 180 feet (54 m). An ancient Greek witness and the Syriac version read “twenty cubits,” i.e., 30 feet (9 m). It is likely that מֵאָה (me’ah, “a hundred”), is a corruption of an original אַמּוֹת (’ammot, “cubits”).
3 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
sn The large bronze basin known as “The Sea” was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (see v. 6; cf. Exod 30:17-21).
4 tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the diameter would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).
5 tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m).
6 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”
7 tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”
