1 Kings 6:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • 2 Chr 3:1-2 : 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
  • Acts 7:47 : 47 But Solomon built him a house.
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
  • Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
  • Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Zech 6:12-13 : 12 and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh; 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.
  • Zech 6:15 : 15 Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh; and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your God."'"
  • John 2:19-21 : 19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20 The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
  • Num 1:1 : 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
  • Judg 11:26 : 26 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?
  • 1 Kgs 6:37 : 37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.
  • 1 Chr 29:19 : 19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:36-38
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    85%

    36He 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 Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.

    38In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts of it, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

  • 2 Chr 3:1-3
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    85%

    1Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    2He 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 sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
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    2The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.

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

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    77%

    1It 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,

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
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    76%

    1Solomon 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 of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16Now 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.

  • 1 Chr 22:5-7
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    5David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

    6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

    7David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-12
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    9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

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

    11The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

    12Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14
    75%

    14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    74%

    4Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.

  • Acts 7:47
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    47But Solomon built him a house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:16-17
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    16He 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.

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

  • 2 Chr 6:10
    73%

    10Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room 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.

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

    18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    72%

    5Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your room, he shall build the house for my name.

  • Ezra 3:6
    72%

    6From 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 6:7
    72%

    7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 6:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    7The 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 3:2
    71%

    2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

  • Hag 1:2
    71%

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

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    71%

    2David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    71%

    15This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    71%

    2But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever.

  • Ezra 3:8
    71%

    8Now 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.

  • Ezra 6:3-4
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    71%

    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 built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid; the height of it sixty cubits, and the breadth of it sixty 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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    70%

    25Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

  • Hag 1:15
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    15in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

  • 1 Chr 28:10
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    10Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
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    11Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

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

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

  • Ezra 6:15
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    15This 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 8:20
    70%

    20Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room 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.