1 Kings 6:38

and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished in all its parts, and according to all the fashion of it. So he was seven years in building it.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

In Context

37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Zif;

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Cross References

Exodus 39:32And all the labour of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was ended; and the children of Israel had done [it] according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses so had they done [it].

Exodus 39:43And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Jehovah had commanded so had they done [it]; and Moses blessed them.

1 Kings 6:9And he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

1 Chronicles 28:19All this [said David,] in writing, by Jehovah's hand upon me, instructing as to all the works of the pattern.

2 Chronicles 8:1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,

Ezra 3:8And in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem; and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to superintend the work of the house of Jehovah.

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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