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

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.

Solomon’s Other Buildings

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

Solomon’s Additional Achievements^(A)

8 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,