And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.
And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.
The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.
The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.
And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.
And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.
But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.
But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.
And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.
And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,
And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,
And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.
And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.
And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.
Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
(For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)
But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:
Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide.
Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.
As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.
He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.
You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.
And Abner said to David, Now I will go, and make all Israel come to my lord the king, so that they may make an agreement with you, and your kingdom may be as wide as your heart's desire. Then David sent Abner away and he went in peace.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon.
When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.
And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;
(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)
Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.
So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,
May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,
And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.
And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,
And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.
Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;
And on the east side the space is to be fifty cubits wide.
The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass.
It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide.
The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same.
For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.
Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.
The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.
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