1 Kings 6:2
The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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
- Ezekiel 40:1-41 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the…
- Ezekiel 41:1-15 Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side. …
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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