1 Kings 6:1-2

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Solomon Builds the Temple^(A)

6 In the four hundred and eightieth^[a] year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month,^(B) he began to build the temple of the Lord.^(C)

²The temple^(D) that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.^[b]

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Footnotes

1 Kings 6:1 Hebrew; Septuagint four hundred and fortieth
1 Kings 6:2 That is, about 90 feet long, 30 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 27 meters long, 9 meters wide and 14 meters high

1 Kings 8:17-20

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¹⁷“My father David had it in his heart^(A) to build a temple^(B) for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁸But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name. ¹⁹Nevertheless, you^(C) are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.’^(D)

²⁰“The Lord has kept the promise he made: I have succeeded^(E) David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised, and I have built^(F) the temple for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 3:1

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Solomon Builds the Temple^(A)

3 Then Solomon began to build^(B) the temple of the Lord^(C) in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah^[a]^(D) the Jebusite, the place provided by David.