1 Kings 6:37
In the fourth year the foundation of the house of LORD was laid, in the month Ziv.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
In Context
36And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to bui
2 Chronicles 3:2And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 6:16-38
15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. 17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And the cedar of the… Read the whole commentary →