1 Kings 6:26

Wycliffe Bible

that is, o cherub hadde the hiythe of ten cubitis, and in lijk maner the tother cherub.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The first cherub’s height was 15 feet and so was the second cherub’s.

Hebrew Names Version
The height of the one Keruv was ten cubits, and so was it of the other Keruv.

King James Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

English Standard Version
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

New Century Version
each was fifteen feet tall.

New English Translation
Each cherub stood 15 feet high.

Amplified Bible
the height of the one cherub was ten cubits, as was the other.

New American Standard Bible
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other Cherub.

Legacy Standard Bible
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.

Complete Jewish Bible
The height of the one keruv was seventeen-and-a-half feet, likewise that of the other.

Darby Translation
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so of the other cherub.

George Lamsa Translation
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Lexham English Bible
The height of the first cherub was ten cubits and so was the second cherub.

Literal Translation
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the second cherub.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so yt ether Cherub was ten cubites hye. And he put the Cherubins within in the house.

American Standard Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Bible in Basic English
The two of them were ten cubits high.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubites, and so was it of the other.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

King James Version (1611)
The height of the one Cherub was ten cubites, and so was it of the other Cherub.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

English Revised Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Berean Standard Bible
and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
the height of the one cherub [is] ten by the cubit, and so [is] the second cherub;

Update Bible Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Webster's Bible Translation
The hight of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub.

World English Bible
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

New King James Version
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.

New Living Translation
each was 15 feet tall.

New Life Bible
Each of the cherubim was almost three times taller than a man.

New Revised Standard
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The height of the one cherub, was ten cubits, - and, so, of the second cherub.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub.

Revised Standard Version
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ and he bildide the wallis of the hows with ynne with tablis of cedre, fro the pawment of the hows `til to the heiynesse of the wal, and `til to the couplis; and hilide with trees of cedre with ynne; and he hilide the pawment of the hows with tablis of beeche. ¹⁶ And he bildide a wal of tablis of cedre of twenti cubitis at the hyndrere part of the temple, fro the pawment `til to the hiyere partis; and he made the ynnere hows of Goddis answeryng place, in to the hooli of hooli thingis. <sup>17</sup> Sotheli thilke temple bifor the doris of Goddis answering place was of fourti cubitis. <sup>18</sup> And al the hows with ynne was clothid with cedre, and hadde hise smethenessis, and hise ioynyngis maad suteli, and grauyngis apperynge aboue; alle thingis weren clothid with tablis of cedre, and outirli a stoon miyte not appere in the wal. <sup>19</sup> Forsothe Salomon made Goddis answeryng place in the myddis of the hows, in the ynnere part, that he schulde sette there the arke of boond of pees of the Lord. <sup>20</sup> Sotheli Goddis answeryng place hadde twenti cubitis of lengthe, and twenti cubitis of breede, and twenti cubitis of hiyte; and he hilide, and clothide it with pureste gold; but also he clothide the auter with cedre. <sup>21</sup> Also he hilide with pureste gold the hows bifor `Goddis answeryng place, and fastnyde platis with goldun nailis. ²² No thing was in the temple, `which thing was not hilid with gold; but also he hilid with gold al the auter of Goddis answeryng place. <sup>23</sup> And he made in `Goddis answeryng place twey cherubyns of the trees of olyues, of ten cubits of heiyte; ²⁴ o wynge of cherub was of fyue cubitis, and the tother wynge of cherub was of fyue cubitis, that is, hauynge ten cubitis, fro the heiynesse of `the o wynge `til to the hiynesse of the tother wynge.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub. Which is repeated from 1 Kings 6:23; that it might be observed, being of an extraordinary size.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 6:26. The height of the one cherub was ten cubits — Concerning the cherubs, their form, &c., Exodus 25:18. The height of each cherub was about eighteen feet and three inches.