CHAPTER EXPLORER
1 Kings 6
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38 verses in KJV · 187 outgoing cross-reference links
Opening verses of 1 Kings 6 (KJV)
6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
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Traditional writer attribution: Jeremiah
Approximate study chronology: c. 1011 BC
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