1 Kings 6:37
In the fourth year the house of YHWH has been founded, in the month of Ziv,
Literal Standard Version
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 builds the inner court, three rows of hewn work, and a row of beams of cedar.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:1And it comes to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year—in the month of Ziv, it [is] the second month—of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he builds the house for YHWH.
2 Chronicles 3:2and he begins to build in the second [day], 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 →