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Solomon Builds the Temple for Yahweh

It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites[a] went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s rule[b] over Israel, the month of Ziv (that is the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh. Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:1 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. 1 Kings 6:1 Literally “Solomon to rule”