Scripture · Old Testament
1 Kings 6:37
1 Kings 6:37 is verse 37 of 1 Kings chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
King James Version
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
World English Bible
The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.
Read in context
1 Kings 6:35–38 · Berean Standard Bible
35 He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold, hammered evenly over the carvings.
36 Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
37 The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
38 In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
Read all of 1 Kings 6Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study 1 Kings 6:37
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 6:1In 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.
2 Chronicles 3:2Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.