Font Size
1 Kings 6:1-2
New Catholic Bible
1 Kings 6:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 6
Solomon Builds the Temple.[a] 1 And so he began to build the temple of the Lord in the four hundred and eighteenth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in Ziv, the second month.[b]
2 The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Kings 6:1 The sanctuary in the proper sense, built around 960 B.C., had the dimensions of one of our not very large churches; other structures were attached to it. But nothing more was needed to match the tabernacle built by Moses. Its grandeur came from the space around it, while the richness of the materials used ensured the desired magnificence.
- 1 Kings 6:1 The date has a religious rather than a historical significance. There is an equally long period between, on the one hand, the building of the tent in the wilderness and the building of the temple, and, on the other, the building of the temple and its rebuilding after the Exile. Each period counted twelve generations of high priests.
