KJV King James Version
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
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1 Kings 6:37
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
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BSB 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.
WEB World English Bible
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.
ASV American Standard Version
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In the fourth year hath the house of Jehovah been founded, in the month Zif,
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 6
34 And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were] folding.
35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
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1 Kings 6:1And 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.2 Chronicles 3:2And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
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