1 Kings 6:14 KJV — MannaFest

1 Kings 6:14

So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

KJV

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ASV

So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

WEB

So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

YLT

And Solomon buildeth the house and completeth it;

DBT

And Solomon built the house and finished it.

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1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (Bava Batra 15a). The book draws on court annals and prophetic records cited by name.
Date: Events c. 970–852 BC; compilation during the late Judahite monarchy or exile

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The TabernacleTemple construction — monumentalization of the tabernacle pattern.

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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.
1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
Acts 7:47–48
But Solomon built him an house.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the L ORD .

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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