1 Kings 7:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 9:10 : 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 8:1 : 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,
  • Eccl 2:4-5 : 4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens. 5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:14-17
    4 verses
    83%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 7:10-12
    3 verses
    81%

    10 And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

    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.

    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    81%

    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 7:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

    3 And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

  • Acts 7:47
    79%

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    78%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    78%

    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,

  • 1 Kgs 6:38
    77%

    38 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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    77%

    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;

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    77%

    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 6:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    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,

    12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

  • 2 Chr 3:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7 Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

    8 And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

    9 All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

  • 1 Kgs 7:51
    73%

    51 So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    73%

    25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    72%

    13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 9:3
    72%

    3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
    72%

    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

    13 Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    71%

    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 1 Chr 22:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

    6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4
    71%

    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 2 Chr 9:30
    70%

    30 Solomon was king over Israel in Jerusalem for forty years.

  • 2 Chr 1:13
    70%

    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    70%

    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 1 Kgs 11:42
    70%

    42 And the time Solomon was king in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    70%

    13 He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

  • Ezek 41:13
    70%

    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;

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    69%

    1 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

  • 2 Chr 5:1
    69%

    1 So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 7:8
    69%

    8 So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.