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Contemporary English Version

1 Kings 7:1

Solomon's palace took thirteen years to build.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Palace;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Palaces;   Solomon;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Lebanon;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Esarhaddon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sol'omon;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Architecture;   Court of the Sanctuary;   King;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palace;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon completed his entire palace complex after thirteen years of construction.
Hebrew Names Version
Shlomo was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
King James Version
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
English Standard Version
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
New Century Version
King Solomon also built a palace for himself; it took him thirteen years to finish it.
New English Translation
Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.
Amplified Bible
Now Solomon built his own house (palace) in thirteen years, and he finished all of his house [in that time].
New American Standard Bible
Now Solomon built his own house over the course of thirteen years, and he finished all of his house.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Bvt Salomon was building his owne house thirteene yeeres, and finished all his house.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Solomon built his own house thirteen years, and he completed all his house.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo built a palace for himself, taking thirteen years to finish it.
Darby Translation
And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house.
Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon also built a palace for himself. It took 13 years to build Solomon's palace.
George Lamsa Translation
BUT Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house and to finish it.
Good News Translation
Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years.
Lexham English Bible
Solomon built his house over thirteen years, and he finished all of his house.
Literal Translation
And Solomon built his own house for thirteen years. And he finished all his house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Bvt Salomon was a buyldinge his awne house thirtene yeare, & fynished it, namely,
American Standard Version
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Bible in Basic English
Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But Solomon was buildinge his owne house thirteene yeres, and finished it all.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
King James Version (1611)
But Solomon was building his owne house thirteene yeres, and he finished all his house.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon built a house for himself in thirteen years.
English Revised Version
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Salomon bildide his owne hows in thrittene yeer, and brouyte it til to perfeccioun.
Young's Literal Translation
And his own house hath Solomon built thirteen years, and he finisheth all his house.
Update Bible Version
And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Webster's Bible Translation
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
World English Bible
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
New King James Version
But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.
New Living Translation
Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years to complete the construction.
New Life Bible
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all of it.
New Revised Standard
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, his own house, was Solomon thirteen years in building, - so he finished all his house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it to perfection.
Revised Standard Version
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.
THE MESSAGE
It took Solomon another thirteen years to finish building his own palace complex. He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. There were four rows of cedar columns supporting forty-five cedar beams, fifteen in each row, and then roofed with cedar. Windows in groupings of three were set high in the walls on either side. All the doors were rectangular and arranged symmetrically.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

Contextual Overview

1 Solomon's palace took thirteen years to build. 2Forest Hall was the largest room in the palace. It was one hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high, and was lined with cedar from Lebanon. It had four rows of cedar pillars, fifteen in a row, and they held up forty-five cedar beams. The ceiling was covered with cedar. 4 Three rows of windows on each side faced each other, 5 and there were three doors on each side near the front of the hall. 6 Pillar Hall was seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. A covered porch supported by pillars went all the way across the front of the hall. 7 Solomon's throne was in Justice Hall, where he judged cases. This hall was completely lined with cedar. 8 The section of the palace where Solomon lived was behind Justice Hall and looked exactly like it. He had a similar place built for his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt. 9 From the foundation all the way to the top, these buildings and the courtyard were made out of the best stones carefully cut to size, then smoothed on every side with saws. 10 The foundation stones were huge, good stones—some of them fifteen feet long and others twelve feet long. 11 The cedar beams and other stones that had been cut to size were on top of these foundation stones.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thirteen years: 1 Kings 9:10, 2 Chronicles 8:1, Ecclesiastes 2:4, Ecclesiastes 2:5, Matthew 6:33

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:11 - they built 1 Kings 3:1 - his own 1 Kings 6:38 - seven years 1 Kings 9:15 - to build 2 Kings 12:4 - the money 1 Chronicles 14:1 - to build him 1 Chronicles 28:13 - the vessels 2 Chronicles 2:1 - an house

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God.
Genesis 7:1
The Lord told Noah: Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
Genesis 7:5
Noah was six hundred years old when he went into the boat to escape the flood, and he did everything the Lord had told him to do. His wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law all went inside with him.
Genesis 7:8
He obeyed God and took a male and a female of each kind of animal and bird into the boat with him.
Genesis 7:10
Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.
Genesis 7:11
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.
Genesis 7:13
On that day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 7:15
Noah took a male and a female of every living creature with him,
Genesis 7:16
just as God had told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, God closed the door.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years,.... He made more haste with the house of God than with his own, for that was but seven years in building; which showed greater regard to the honour of God then to his own glory, or even convenience; nor was this built till after that:

and finished all his house; or houses he undertook to build, the singular for the plural; even the house of God, his own palace, and that for the daughter of Pharaoh, and that which is next mentioned, which were in all twenty years building, 1 Kings 9:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thirteen years - The thirteen years, i. e., counting from the end of the seven 1 Kings 6:38. Solomon’s buildings thus occupied him twenty years 1 Kings 9:10; 2 Chronicles 8:1, from the fourth year of his reign to the twenty-fourth. The difference in the time taken by the temple and the palace is to be accounted for,

(1) by the long period of preparation which preceded the actual building of the former 1 Chronicles 22:2-4; 1 Kings 5:13-18; and

(2) by the greater size of the palace, which consisted of several large ranges of buildings. (See the next note.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII

Solomon builds his own house, and completes it in thirteen

years, 1.

He builds another called the house of the forest of Lebanon;

and a house for Pharaoh's daughter, 2-12.

He brings Hiram, a coppersmith, out of Tyre, who makes much

curious work for the temple, 13-20.

He makes the two pillars Jachin and Boaz, 21, 22.

The molten sea, and the twelve oxen that bare it, 23-26.

And ten brazen bases, and the ten lavers with pots, shovels,

and basons, all of which he cast in the plain of Jordan, 27-46.

The quantity of brass too great to be weighed; and the vessels

of the temple were all of pure gold, 47-50.

Solomon brings into the house the silver and gold which his

father had dedicated, 51.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse 1 Kings 7:1. Building his own house — This house is said to have been situated in Jerusalem, and probably was, what some call it, his winter's residence. It is called the king's house, 1 Kings 9:10.


 
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