Solomon Builds the Temple
1 And 2 Chr. 3:1, 2it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come 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 7:47that he began to build the house of the Lord. 2 Now Ezek. 41:1the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
19 And he prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple, to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. 20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the 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 details and according to all its plans. So he was 2 Sam. 7:13; 1 Kin. 5:5; 6:1; 8:19seven years in building it.