1 Kings 6:37

The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.

Berean Standard Bible

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

36Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

38In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 3:2Solomon began construction on the second day of 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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