1 Kings 6:37

In the fourth year, the house of the Lord was founded, in the month of Ziv.

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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 atrium with three rows of polished stones, and one row of cedar wood.

38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was perfected in all its works and in all its equipment. And he built it for seven years.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:1Then it happened that, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel departed from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, the house of the Lord began to be built.

2 Chronicles 3:2Now he began to build in 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 →

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