1 Kings 6:33-38

33 He made the door of the main hall with doorframes of olive wood with four recesses.

34 The two doors of pinewood each pivoted on a socket.

35 Solomon carved winged creatures, palm trees, and blossoming flowers, and covered them with gold.

36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone followed by one row of trimmed cedar.

37 Solomon laid the foundation of the LORD's temple in the fourth year in the month of Ziv.

38 He finished the temple in all its details and measurements in the eleventh year during the eighth month, the month of Bul. He built it in seven years.

1 Kings 6:33-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS 6

This chapter gives an account of the building of the temple, for which preparations were before made and begins with the time of its building, 1Ki 6:1; gives the dimensions of it and the porch before it, 1Ki 6:2,3; observes the windows in it and chambers about it, 1Ki 6:4-10; and while it was building, Solomon had a word from the Lord relative to it, 1Ki 6:11-14; and then the account goes on concerning the walls of the house, and the flooring of it, 1Ki 6:15-18; and the oracle in it, and the cherubim in that, 1Ki 6:19-30; and the doors into it, and the carved work of them, 1Ki 6:31-36; and the chapter is concluded with observing the time when it was begun and finished 1Ki 6:37,38.

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb uncertain
• [b]. April–May, Iyar; Ziv is a month in the Canaanite calendar.
• [c]. October–November, Heshvan; Bul is a month in the Canaanite calendar.