1 Kings 6:38
In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded in the month Zio:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
37And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.
Cross References
Exodus 39:32And they offered the tabernacle and the roof and the whole furniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars, and their sockets,
Exodus 39:43And when Moses saw all things finished, he blessed them.
1 Kings 6:9So he built the house, and finished it: end he covered the house with roofs of cedar.
1 Chronicles 28:19All these things, said he, came to me written by the hand of the Lord that I might understand all the works of the pattern.
2 Chronicles 8:1And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house:
Ezra 3:8And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work 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 →