1 Kings 6:12
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- c. 966 BC
- WHO
- Solomon
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
- 1 Chronicles 22:10 He is the one who will build a house for My Name. He will be My son, and I will be his Father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
- Colossians 1:23 if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which…
- 2 Samuel 7:12-16 And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. …
- 1 Kings 3:14 So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
- 1 Kings 9:3-6 And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart…
- Psalms 132:12 If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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