1 Kings 6:1

d In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, this is the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

In Context

2And the house which the king built to the Lord was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:41And it came to pass after the four hundred and thirty years, all the forces of the Lord came forth out of the land of Egypt by night.

Numbers 1:1And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of witness, on the first day of the second month, in the second year of their departure from the land of Egypt, saying,

2 Chronicles 3:1And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in the mount of Moriah, where the Lord appeared to his father David, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Ezra 5:11And they answered us thus, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which had been built many years before this, and a great king of Israel built it, and established it for them.

Zechariah 6:12and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall spring up from his stem, and build the house of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 6:1

Great and long preparation had been making for the building of the temple, and here, at length, comes an account of the building of it; a noble piece of work it was, one of the wonders of the world, and taking in its spiritual significancy, one of the glories of the church. Here is, I. The time when it was built ( ver. 1 ), and how long it was in the building, ver. 37, 38 . II. The silence with which it was build, ver. 7 . III. The dimensions of it, ver. 2, 3 . IV. The message God sent to Solomon, when it was in… Read the whole commentary →

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