1 Kings 6:37
In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.
Bible in Basic English
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 the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.
2 Chronicles 3:2The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.
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 →