1 Kings 7:1

New American Standard Bible (1995)

Now 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.

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.

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.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.² He built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars. ³ It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row. ⁴ There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks. ⁵ All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks. ⁶ Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them. ⁷ He made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor. ⁸ His house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married. ⁹ All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. ¹⁰ The foundation was of costly stones, even large 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 records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:5
Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.

Genesis 7:6
Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

Genesis 7:9
there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:10
It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky 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.