1 Kings 7:1

1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

1 Kings 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:1

But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years
He made more haste with the house of God than with his own, for that was but seven years in building; which showed greater regard to the honour of God then to his own glory, or even convenience; nor was this built till after that:

and finished all his house;
or houses he undertook to build, the singular for the plural; even the house of God, his own palace, and that for the daughter of Pharaoh, and that which is next mentioned, which were in all twenty years building, ( 1 Kings 9:10 ) .

1 Kings 7:1 In-Context

1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

2 And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

3 And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

4 There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.

5 And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.