1 Kings 6:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.
  • 1 Kgs 6:9 : 9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
  • 1 Kgs 7:1 : 1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.
  • Ezra 3:8-9 : 8 Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord. 9 Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites. 10 And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel. 11 And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place. 12 But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: 13 So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.
  • Ezra 6:14-15 : 14 And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia. 15 And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.
  • Zech 4:9 : 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
  • Zech 6:13-15 : 13 And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace. 14 And the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and Jedaiah and the son of Zephaniah, to keep their memory living in the house of the Lord. 15 And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
  • John 2:20 : 20 The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    36 And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

    37 In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

    3 The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

  • Ezra 6:15
    78%

    15 And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

    10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

    11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

    2 And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    76%

    16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    76%

    1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

    6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

    7 (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

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

    14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

    15 The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

    16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

    17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

    18 (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

  • Ezra 5:16
    74%

    16 Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.

  • Ezra 6:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;

    4 With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

  • 2 Chr 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

    3 And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

  • Neh 6:15
    73%

    15 So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    73%

    10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    72%

    11 So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

  • Ezra 3:6
    72%

    6 From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.

  • 2 Chr 29:17
    72%

    17 On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

  • Hag 1:15
    72%

    15 On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

  • 2 Chr 31:7
    72%

    7 The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    72%

    6 To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    72%

    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

  • Ezra 5:13
    72%

    13 But in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, Cyrus the king gave an order for the building of this house of God;

  • 2 Chr 6:10
    71%

    10 And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

  • Ezek 41:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.

    13 And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;

  • Ezra 7:8
    71%

    8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king's rule.

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
    71%

    13 So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

  • Ezek 41:5
    71%

    5 Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.

  • Ezek 41:8
    71%

    8 And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

  • 2 Chr 29:3
    70%

    3 In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.

  • Ezra 3:8
    70%

    8 Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.

  • Hag 1:2
    70%

    2 These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.

  • 2 Chr 2:6
    70%

    6 But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    69%

    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 1 Kgs 7:10
    69%

    10 And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.