1 Kings 6:1

Contemporary English Version 1995

Solomon's workers started building the temple during Ziv, the second month of the year. It had been 4 years since Solomon became king of Israel, and 480 years since the people of Israel left Egypt.

Cross References

Acts 7:47

And it was finally King Solomon who built a house for God.

1 Peter 2:5

And now you are living stones being used to build a spiritual house. You are also a group of holy priests, and with the help of Jesus Christ you will offer sacrifices that please God.

1 Chronicles 29:19

And give Solomon the desire to completely obey your laws and teachings, and the desire to build the temple for which I have provided these gifts.

1 Kings 6:37

Work began on the temple during Ziv, the second month of the year, four years after Solomon became king of Israel.

Hebrews 11:10

Abraham did this, because he was waiting for the eternal city God had planned and built.

Hebrews 9:11

Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here. He also went into a much better tent that wasn't made by humans and that doesn't belong to this world.

Colossians 2:7

Plant your roots in Christ and let him be the foundation for your life. Be strong in your faith, just as you were taught. And be grateful.

2 Corinthians 6:16

Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says, “I will live with these people and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

1 Corinthians 6:19

You surely know that your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives. The Spirit is in you and is a gift from God. You are no longer your own.

Zechariah 6:15

When people from distant lands come and help build the temple of the Lord All-Powerful, you will know that the Lord is the one who sent me. And this will happen, if you truly obey the Lord your God.

Judges 11:26

For 300 years, Israelites have been living in Heshbon and Aroer and the nearby villages, and in the towns along the Arnon River gorge. If the land really belonged to you Ammonites, you wouldn't have waited until now to try to get it back.

Numbers 1:1

The people of Israel had left Egypt and were living in the Sinai Desert. Then on the first day of the second month of the second year, when Moses was in the sacred tent the Lord said:

Acts 13:19

He destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan and gave their land to our people.

1 Kings 6:2

The inside of the Lord's temple was 27 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 13.5 meters high.

Ezra 5:11

They claimed to be servants of the God who rules heaven and earth. And they said they were rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago by one of Israel's greatest kings.

Psalm 78:69

There he built his temple as lofty as the mountains and as solid as the earth he made to last forever.

Haggai 1:8

But first, go to the hills and get wood for my temple, so I can take pride in it and be worshiped there.

Exodus 12:51

And on that same day the Lord brought Israel's families and tribes out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 3:3

The inside of the temple was 27 meters long and 9 meters wide, according to the older standards.

Ezekiel 41:1

Next we went into the main room of the temple. The man measured the doorway of this room: It was 3 meters wide,