1 Kings 6:38
In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.
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In Context
37The foundation of the LORD’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.
Cross References
Exodus 39:32Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; so they did.
Exodus 39:43Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.
1 Kings 6:9So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
1 Chronicles 28:19“All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from the LORD’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
2 Chronicles 8:1At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the LORD’s house and his own house,
Ezra 3:8Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s house.
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 →