1 Kings 6:38

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 It happened 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 Yahweh.
  • 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 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 to 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 brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh. 9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, 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 brothers the Levites. 10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel. 11 They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who 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 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built 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 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 you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
  • Zech 6:13-15 : 13 even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. 14 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 Yahweh. 15 Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your God."'"
  • John 2:20 : 20 The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"

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

    36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1 It happened 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 Yahweh.

    2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

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

  • Ezra 6:15
    78%

    15 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
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    77%

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

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

    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
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    1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

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

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    76%

    1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5 Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.

    6 The 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 all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

    7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared 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
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    76%

    14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

    15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to 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.

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

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

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

  • Ezra 5:16
    74%

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

  • Ezra 6:3-4
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    74%

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

    4 with 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
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    74%

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

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

  • Neh 6:15
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    15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    72%

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

  • Ezra 3:6
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 29:17
    72%

    17 Now 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 Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

  • Hag 1:15
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    15 in 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 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

  • Ezra 5:13
    72%

    13 But 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%

    10 "Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • Ezek 41:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 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 all around, and its length ninety cubits.

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

  • Ezra 7:8
    71%

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

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
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    13 So the workmen worked, 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
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    5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

  • Ezek 41:8
    71%

    8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

  • 2 Chr 29:3
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    3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.

  • Ezra 3:8
    70%

    8 Now in the second year of their coming to 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 brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.

  • Hag 1:2
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    2 "This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'"

  • 2 Chr 2:6
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    6 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 1 Kgs 7:10
    69%

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