1 Kings 6:1

1 Four hundred and eighty years after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's rule over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, Solomon started building The Temple of God.

1 Kings 6:1 In-Context

1 Four hundred and eighty years after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's rule over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, Solomon started building The Temple of God.
2 The Temple that King Solomon built to God was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
3 There was a porch across the thirty-foot width of The Temple that extended out fifteen feet.
4 Within The Temple he made narrow, deep-silled windows.
5 Against the outside walls he built a supporting structure in which there were smaller rooms:
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