1 Kings 6:38
Good News Translation
In the eighth month, the month of Bul, in the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, the Temple was completely finished exactly as it had been planned. It had taken Solomon seven years to build it.

New Revised Standard Version
In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.

Contemporary English Version
Seven years later the workers finished building it during Bul, the eighth month of the year. It was built exactly as it had been planned.

New American Bible
and it was finished, in all particulars, exactly according to plan, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, in the eleventh year. Thus Solomon built it in seven years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul. (which is the eighth month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul. (which is the eighth month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.

finished

Ezra 6:14,15 And the ancients of the Jews built, and prospered according to the prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo: and they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the Persians. . . .

Zechariah 4:9 The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundations of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to you.

Zechariah 6:13-15 Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit, and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. . . .

throughout, etc.

seven years

1 Kings 6:1,9 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord. . . .

1 Kings 7:1 And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it to perfection.

Ezra 3:8-13 And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the Levites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord. . . .

Ezra 6:15 And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.

John 2:20 The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

Context
The Courtyard
37In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the month Zio: 38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul. (which is the eighth month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

1 Kings 6:14
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

1 Kings 6:37
In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the month Zio:

1 Kings 7:1
And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it to perfection.

1 Kings 9:10
And when twenty years were ended, after Solomon had built the two houses; that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,

Ezra 5:11
And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was built these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and set up.

1 Kings 6:37
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