1 Kings 6:38 meaning and explanation
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.
1 Kings 6:38, Berean Standard Bible
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The verse closes the account of Solomon's building project. The narrator dates the completion to Solomon's eleventh year, in the month Bul, which the text identifies as the eighth month, so the work took about seven and a half years from the foundation laid in his fourth year.
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