1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Egypt
- WHEN
- c. 966 BC
- WHO
- Solomon
ON THE MAP
WHO APPEARS
WHEN
c. 966 BC
dated by the text itself
The verse on which the whole chronology of the Old Testament rests: it is the only one that gives a span in years between the Exodus and a datable event.
WHO RULED
- Solomon king of Israel 970-931 BC
SOURCES
- date — 1 Kings 6:1 dates the founding of the Temple by the four hundred and eightieth year after the Exodus and by the fourth year of Solomon.
- Solomon — 1 Kings 11:42; the annals of Tyre cited by Josephus in Against Apion I
SEE ALSO
- 2 Chronicles 3:1-2 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the…
- Acts 7:47 But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
- 1 Kings 6:37 The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
- 1 Peter 2:5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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