# He built twenty cubits ... He built this room
Solomon would have commanded his workers to do the building. Alternate translation: "He commanded them to build twenty cubits ... He had them build this room" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# He built twenty cubits
"He built a room twenty cubits long"
# twenty cubits ... forty cubits
A cubit is 46 centimeters. Alternate translation: "9.2 meters ... 18.4 meters" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bdistance]])