Compare & Correlate · Measured
The cube
The inner room of Solomon's house beside the city John is shown. Both are as long as they are broad and as high as they are long, and both are gold. No verse connects the two: Revelation never cites the room, so what is compared here is only what each text states, and the numbers are left in their own units.
Measured: Numbers the texts state. Stated, derived and unstated are drawn apart.
The cube. Measured — the numbers are the texts' own; stated, derived and unstated are drawn apart.
Sources:
- Hebrew numbers read off the verse cited beside each, and checked against the annotated corpus by tests/test_correlations.py; Greek references checked against SBLGNT for existence only; their words and numbers are not machine-verified, because the figure layer holds no Greek tokens (docs/compare-and-correlate.md §4).
- No verse makes the connection between the two. The reading that the city is the inner room enlarged is a tradition's, and is set out, labelled as one, in the entry on Ezekiel's house as the holy of holies.
Row by row
| The inner room, 1 Kings 6 | The city, Revelation 21 | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 20 cubits1 Kings 6:20stated | 12,000 stadia, measured with the reedRevelation 21:16stated |
| Breadth | 20 cubits1 Kings 6:20stated | as great as the lengthRevelation 21:16stated |
| Height | 20 cubits1 Kings 6:20stated | equal to the length and the breadthRevelation 21:16stated |
| 2 Chronicles 3:8 and Ezekiel 41:4 give this room twenty by twenty and no height. Only Kings makes it a cube. | ||
| The shape | a cubethree stated twenties; the text never says the sides are equal1 Kings 6:20derived | its length, breadth and height are equalRevelation 21:16stated |
| What surrounds it | a house 60 cubits long, 20 wide, 30 high1 Kings 6:2stated | a wall of 144 cubits, by a human measureRevelation 21:17stated |
| A room twenty high stands in a house thirty high, and the text does not say what fills the difference. John sees no temple in the city at all (Revelation 21:22). | ||
| Overlaid with | pure gold1 Kings 6:20stated | pure gold, like clear glassRevelation 21:18stated |
Where it appears in the text
- 1 Kings 6 — the inner room, twenty cubits every way
- Revelation 21 — the city whose length, breadth and height are equal
In the app this comparison opens beneath each of those chapters. Open it in TheophilusBible.