1 Kings 7:1

King James Version

But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

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.

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.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon's palace took thirteen years to build.

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 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. ² He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. ³ And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. ⁴ And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. ⁵ And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. ⁶ And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them. ⁷ Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. ⁸ And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch. ⁹ All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. ¹⁰ And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

Bible Verse Review
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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
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:4
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 7:6
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Genesis 7:7
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

Genesis 7:9
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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.