1 Kings 9:10 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 9:10

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king’s house

KJV

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

At the end of twenty years - He employed seven years and a half in building the temple, and twelve years and a half in building the king’s house; see 1Ki 7:1; 2Ch 8:1.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֗י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
מִקְצֵה֙	mik.Tzeh	from [the] end of	H7097 →
עֶשְׂרִ֣ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
שָׁנָ֔ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
בָּנָ֥ה	ba.Nah	he had built	H1129 →
שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שְׁנֵ֣י	she.Nei	[the] two	H8147 →
הַבָּתִּ֑ים	ha.ba.Tim	the houses	H1004 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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1 Kings 9:1
Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 7:11
  When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own…
- 1 Kings 9:19
  as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
- 1 Kings 9:11
  King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10
  Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9
  Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Through
1 Kings 6:37
The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.
leads to
- 1 Kings 6:1
  In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over…
- 2 Chronicles 3:2
  Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.