Contradictions and Paradoxes in 1 Kings 6:3

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 1 Kings 6:3 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 1 Kings 6:3. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 1 Kings, this verse tells us how big the porch in front of God's special house, the temple, was. It was as wide as the temple and half as long as it was wide.

1 Kings 6:3: And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.

Contradiction with 2 Chronicles 3:4

This verse states the porch was 120 cubits high, which differs significantly from the dimensions given in 1 Kings 6:3, where the porch is described as 20 cubits long and 10 cubits wide without specifying its height.

2 Chronicles 3:4: And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

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