Solomon Builds the Temple
1 2 Chr. 3:1,2In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, Acts 7:47he began to build the house of the Lord. 2 2 Chr. 3:3,4;See Ezek. 40–42The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits6:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
19 The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 20 The inner sanctuary6:20 Vulgate; Hebrew And before the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid6:20 Septuagint made an altar of cedar.
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.