📖WEB · 1 Kings 6:1
What does 1 Kings 6:1 mean?
"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 Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house."
— 1 Kings 6:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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 Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.
The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.
He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
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