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1 Kings 7:1

Solomon completed his entire palace complex after 13 years of construction.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Palace;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Palaces;   Solomon;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Lebanon;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Esarhaddon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sol'omon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Architecture;   Court of the Sanctuary;   King;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palace;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Solomon built his own house thirteen years, and he completed all his house.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But Solomon was buildinge his owne house thirteene yeres, and finished it all.
Literal Translation
And Solomon built his own house for thirteen years. And he finished all his house.
Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon also built a palace for himself. It took 13 years to build Solomon's palace.
Revised Standard Version
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
World English Bible
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
King James Version (1611)
But Solomon was building his owne house thirteene yeres, and he finished all his house.
King James Version
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Bvt Salomon was a buyldinge his awne house thirtene yeare, & fynished it, namely,
THE MESSAGE
It took Solomon another thirteen years to finish building his own palace complex. He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. There were four rows of cedar columns supporting forty-five cedar beams, fifteen in each row, and then roofed with cedar. Windows in groupings of three were set high in the walls on either side. All the doors were rectangular and arranged symmetrically.
American Standard Version
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Bible in Basic English
Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.
Update Bible Version
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Webster's Bible Translation
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
New English Translation
Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.
New King James Version
But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.
Contemporary English Version
Solomon's palace took thirteen years to build.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo built a palace for himself, taking thirteen years to finish it.
Darby Translation
And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Bvt Salomon was building his owne house thirteene yeeres, and finished all his house.
George Lamsa Translation
BUT Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house and to finish it.
Amplified Bible
Now Solomon built his own house (palace) in thirteen years, and he finished all of his house [in that time].
Hebrew Names Version
Shlomo was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
New Living Translation
Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years to complete the construction.
New Life Bible
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all of it.
New Revised Standard
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon built a house for himself in thirteen years.
English Revised Version
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, his own house, was Solomon thirteen years in building, - so he finished all his house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it to perfection.
Lexham English Bible
Solomon built his house over thirteen years, and he finished all of his house.
English Standard Version
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
New American Standard Bible
Now Solomon built his own house over the course of thirteen years, and he finished all of his house.
New Century Version
King Solomon also built a palace for himself; it took him thirteen years to finish it.
Good News Translation
Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Salomon bildide his owne hows in thrittene yeer, and brouyte it til to perfeccioun.
Young's Literal Translation
And his own house hath Solomon built thirteen years, and he finisheth all his house.

Contextual Overview

1 Solomon completed his entire palace complex after 13 years of construction. 2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars. 3 It was paneled above with cedar at the top of the chambers that rested on 45 pillars, 15 per row. 4 There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers. 5 All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers. 6 He made the hall of pillars 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars was in front of them. 7 He made the Hall of the Throne where he would judge—the Hall of Judgment. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters. 8 Solomon's own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, his wife. 9 All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard. 10 The foundation was made of large, costly stones 12 and 15 feet long.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thirteen years: 1 Kings 9:10, 2 Chronicles 8:1, Ecclesiastes 2:4, Ecclesiastes 2:5, Matthew 6:33

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:11 - they built 1 Kings 3:1 - his own 1 Kings 6:38 - seven years 1 Kings 9:15 - to build 2 Kings 12:4 - the money 1 Chronicles 14:1 - to build him 1 Chronicles 28:13 - the vessels 2 Chronicles 2:1 - an house

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.
Genesis 7:7
So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:8
From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,
Genesis 7:9
two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.
Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the waters of the flood came on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years,.... He made more haste with the house of God than with his own, for that was but seven years in building; which showed greater regard to the honour of God then to his own glory, or even convenience; nor was this built till after that:

and finished all his house; or houses he undertook to build, the singular for the plural; even the house of God, his own palace, and that for the daughter of Pharaoh, and that which is next mentioned, which were in all twenty years building, 1 Kings 9:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thirteen years - The thirteen years, i. e., counting from the end of the seven 1 Kings 6:38. Solomon’s buildings thus occupied him twenty years 1 Kings 9:10; 2 Chronicles 8:1, from the fourth year of his reign to the twenty-fourth. The difference in the time taken by the temple and the palace is to be accounted for,

(1) by the long period of preparation which preceded the actual building of the former 1 Chronicles 22:2-4; 1 Kings 5:13-18; and

(2) by the greater size of the palace, which consisted of several large ranges of buildings. (See the next note.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII

Solomon builds his own house, and completes it in thirteen

years, 1.

He builds another called the house of the forest of Lebanon;

and a house for Pharaoh's daughter, 2-12.

He brings Hiram, a coppersmith, out of Tyre, who makes much

curious work for the temple, 13-20.

He makes the two pillars Jachin and Boaz, 21, 22.

The molten sea, and the twelve oxen that bare it, 23-26.

And ten brazen bases, and the ten lavers with pots, shovels,

and basons, all of which he cast in the plain of Jordan, 27-46.

The quantity of brass too great to be weighed; and the vessels

of the temple were all of pure gold, 47-50.

Solomon brings into the house the silver and gold which his

father had dedicated, 51.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse 1 Kings 7:1. Building his own house — This house is said to have been situated in Jerusalem, and probably was, what some call it, his winter's residence. It is called the king's house, 1 Kings 9:10.


 
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