New English Translation
1 Kings 6:37
37In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 6:37 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:
- New International Version (NIV)The foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.
- English Standard Version (ESV)In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
- New King James Version (NKJV)In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.
Context of 1 Kings 6:37
35He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings. 36He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams. In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple. 38In the eleventh year, in the month Bul (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build.
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בַּשָּׁנָה֙ הָֽרְבִיעִ֔ית יֻסַּ֖ד בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה בְּיֶ֖רַח זִֽו׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Kings 6:37
- 1 Kings 6:1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
- 2 Chronicles 3:2He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
Commentaries on 1 Kings 6:37
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-38Verses 15-38 See what was typified by this temple. 1. Christ is the true Temple. In him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead; in him meet all God's spiritual Israel; through him we have access with confidence to God. 2. Every believer is a living temple, in whom the Spirit of God dwells, 1Co 3:16. This living temple is built upon Christ as its Foundation, and will be perfect in due time. 3. The gospel church is the mystical temple. It grows to a holy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 36-38The inner courtyard around the temple was only for priests (2 Chronicles 4:9). It had the bronze altar (2 Chronicles 4:1), the bronze Sea (1 Kings 7:23–26; 2 Chronicles 4:2–5), and ten carts. Each cart could hold a basin of water for purification (1 Kings 7:27–40; 2 Chronicles 4:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3737. In the fourth year was the foundation laid--The building was begun in the second month of the fourth year and completed in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, comprising a period of seven and a half years, which is reckoned here in round numbers. It was not a very large, but a very splendid building, requiring great care, and ingenuity, and division of labor. The immense number of workmen employed, together with the previous…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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