1 Kings 6:38

American Standard Version (1901)

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.
  • 1 Kgs 6:9 : 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
  • 1 Kgs 7:1 : 1 And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
  • Ezra 3:8-9 : 8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah. 9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites. 10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks unto Jehovah, [saying], For he is good, for his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
  • Ezra 6:14-15 : 14 And the elders of the Jews builded and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
  • Zech 4:9 : 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you.
  • Zech 6:13-15 : 13 even he shall build the temple of Jehovah; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. 14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah. 15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God.
  • John 2:20 : 20 The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 6:36-37
    2 verses
    83%

    36And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.

    37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

    2And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.

    3And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

  • Ezra 6:15
    78%

    15And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

    10And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

    11And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

    2For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    76%

    16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Jehovah was completed.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    76%

    1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Jehovah, and his own house,

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

    6The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

    7And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-18
    5 verses
    76%

    14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

    15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

    16And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls [of the ceiling] : he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

    17And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long] .

    18And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

  • Ezra 5:16
    74%

    16Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not completed.

  • Ezra 6:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

    4with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

    3Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

  • Neh 6:15
    73%

    15So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    73%

    10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    72%

    11Thus Solomon finished the house of Jehovah, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

  • Ezra 3:6
    72%

    6From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid.

  • 2 Chr 29:17
    72%

    17Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

  • Hag 1:15
    72%

    15in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth [month], in the second year of Darius the king.

  • 2 Chr 31:7
    72%

    7In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    72%

    6unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    72%

    1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

  • Ezra 5:13
    72%

    13But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

  • 2 Chr 6:10
    71%

    10And Jehovah hath performed his word that he spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  • Ezek 41:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

    13So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long;

  • Ezra 7:8
    71%

    8And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
    71%

    13So the workmen wrought, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

  • Ezek 41:5
    71%

    5Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

  • Ezek 41:8
    71%

    8I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

  • 2 Chr 29:3
    70%

    3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.

  • Ezra 3:8
    70%

    8Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah.

  • Hag 1:2
    70%

    2Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for Jehovah's house to be built.

  • 2 Chr 2:6
    70%

    6But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    69%

    1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 1 Kgs 7:10
    69%

    10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.