1 Kings 6:38
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.
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37In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.
Cross References
Exodus 39:32So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it.
Exodus 39:43Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.
1 Kings 6:9So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
1 Chronicles 28:19All this, said David, the design for all these things, has been made dear to me in writing by the hand of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 8:1Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,
Ezra 3:8Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.
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 →