Add parallel Print Page Options

Solomon Builds the Temple

(A)In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, (B)he began to build the house of the Lord. (C)The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits[a] long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimetres