1 Kings 9:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁰Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,¹¹King 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. ¹²So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them. ¹³"What are these towns you have given me, my brother?" asked Hiram, and he called them the land of Cabul, as they are called to this day. ¹⁴And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.

Bible Verse Review
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at the end of twenty: 1 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 6:37, 1 Kings 6:38, 1 Kings 7:1, 2 Chronicles 8:1-18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:15 - to build 1 Kings 11:4 - when Solomon

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:5
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Genesis 9:15
I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all living creatures: Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

Genesis 9:16
And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth."

Psalms 145:9
The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Jonah 4:11
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,.... From the time Solomon first began to build: when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king's house; the first was seven years in building, and the other thirteen; in all twenty.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “twenty years” are to be counted from the fourth year of Solomon, the year when he commenced the building of the temple. They are made up of the seven years employed in the work of the temple 1 Kings 6:38, and the thirteen years during which Solomon was building his own house 1 Kings 7:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 9:10. 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 1 Kings 7:1; 2 Chronicles 8:1.