A moment in scripture
1 Kings 6:37
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In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Kings 6:35
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
- 1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 6:38
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.