37 (A)In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of [a]Ziv.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:37 Or Ayyar, April or May

37 The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.

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38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of [a]Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. So he was (A)seven years in building it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:38 Or Heshvan, October or November

38 In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details(A) according to its specifications.(B) He had spent seven years building it.

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Solomon’s Other Buildings

But Solomon took (A)thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.

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Solomon Builds His Palace

It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.(A)

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Solomon’s Additional Achievements(A)

It (B)came to pass at the end of (C)twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house,

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Solomon’s Other Activities(A)

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace,(B)

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