1 Kings 6:38

and, in the eleventh year, in the month Bul—the same, is the eighth month, was the house finished, as to all the particulars thereof, and as to all the appointments thereof,—so then he built it in seven years.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

37In the fourth year, was laid the foundation of the house of Yahweh,—in the month Zif;

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Cross References

Exodus 39:32Thus was finished all the work of the habitation of the tent of meeting,—thus did the sons of Israel, according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so, did they.

Exodus 39:43And Moses looked upon all the structure and lo! they had made it, as Yahweh had commanded, so, had they made it,—and Moses blessed them.

1 Kings 6:9So he built the house, and finished it,—and ceiled the house with planks and beams of cedar;

1 Chronicles 28:19the whole in writing, From the hand of Yahweh upon me, to give understanding,—all the works of the pattern.

2 Chronicles 8:1And it came to pass, at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

Ezra 3:8Now, in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak and the rest of their brethren—the priests and the Levites, and all that were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and stationed the Levites, of twenty years old and upwards, to preside over the work of the house of Yahweh.

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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