1 Kings 7:1

New Life Version

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

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 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 was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all of it. ² He built the house of the trees of Lebanon. It was as long as fifty long steps, as wide as twenty-five long steps, and eight times taller than a man. It was built on four rows of cedar pillars, and large pieces of cedar wood lying on top of the pillars. ³ And it was covered with cedar above the rooms that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row. ⁴ There were three rows of special windows on one side, and three rows of windows on the other side. ⁵ All the doors and windows were as high as they were wide. And there were three rows of windows on each side. ⁶ Then he made a room for walking through of large pillars. It was as long as twenty-five long steps, and as wide as fifteen long steps. There was a porch in front with pillars, and an overhead covering in front of them. ⁷ He made a room for the throne, the room for judging. It was where he would decide between right and wrong. It was covered with cedar from the floor to the roof. ⁸ His own house where he was to live, in the place behind the throne room, was built the same way. Solomon made a house like this room for Pharaoh's daughter also, whom he had married. ⁹ All these were made with stones of much worth, each one cut to be put into place. They were cut with saws, inside and outside, from the very base to the top of the roof, and from the outside to the largest room. ¹⁰ The base of the building was made with large stones of much worth. The stones were as long as five long steps, and four long steps.

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
This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat, you and all your family. For I have seen that you only are right and good at this time.

Genesis 7:4
In seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy from the land every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:5
And Noah did all that the Lord told him to do.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 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 all went into the large boat because of the water of the flood.

Genesis 7:8
Clean animals and animals that were unclean and birds and every thing that moved on the ground

Genesis 7:9
went into the large boat with Noah. They went two by two, male and female, just as God had told Noah.

Genesis 7:10
After seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the year 600 of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the wells of water under the earth broke open. The windows of the heavens 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.