1 Kings 6:37

In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Ziv;

Leeser Tanakh

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 court of three rows of hewn stone, and one row of cedar beams.

38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its requirements. So was he building it seven years.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:1And it came to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the going forth of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, of the reign of Solomon over Israel, that he built the house unto the Lord.

2 Chronicles 3:2And he began to build 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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