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Solomon builds the temple

Solomon builds the temple is dated 966–959 BC in the Modern reckoning and 1012–1005 BC in the Traditional. It is told in 1 Kings 6:1.

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 6:1 BSB
  1. a Hebrew; LXX four hundred and fortieth
  2. b Ziv was the second month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of April and May; also in verse 37.

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning
966–959 BC
Traditional reckoning
1012–1005 BC
How it's dated
the Bible's numbers

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Sources: Theographic event 162; 1 Kings 6:1, 6:38.

Where is it in the Bible?

Who was there, and where?

Where: Jerusalem.

Which verses connect to 1 Kings 6:1?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:1–25 votes

    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 threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

  2. Acts 7:474 votes

    But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.

  3. 1 Kings 6:373 votes

    The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.

  4. 1 Chronicles 29:193 votes

    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.”

  5. 1 Peter 2:53 votes

    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.

  6. Numbers 1:12 votes

    On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:

Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.