1Ki 6:1, 9, 7:1, Ezr 3:8-13, 6:15, Joh 2:20 | ESV | STEP | In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt , in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel , in the month of Ziv , which is the second month , he began to build the house of the Lord .

i[See ver. 8 above]

j[See ver. 8 above]

k Neh. 10:9, 10

l 1 Chr. 6:31; 16:4-6; 25:1, 2

mSee 1 Chr. 16:34, 41

n Hag. 2:3

o Esth. 3:7

1 Kings 6:1

Solomon Builds the Temple

1 ^aIn the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, ^bhe began to build the house of the Lord.

1 Kings 6:9

9 ^cSo he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.

1 Kings 7:1

Solomon Builds His Palace

1 Solomon was ^dbuilding his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

Ezra 3:8-13

Rebuilding the Temple

8 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, ^eZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and ^fJeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They ^gappointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to ^hsupervise the work of the house of the Lord. 9 And ⁱJeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together ^jsupervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the ^ksons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.

10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, ^laccording to the directions of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord,

^m“For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.”
And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, ⁿold men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

Ezra 6:15

15 and this house was finished on the third day of the ^omonth of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

John 2:20

20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, ^{▼▼Or This temple was built forty-six years ago} and will you raise it up in three days?”