1012 BC · United Kingdom

Solomon begins the temple

In the fourth year of his reign, in the 480th year after the Exodus, Solomon began to build the house of the LORD (1 Kings 6:1), 1012 BC.

📖 1 Kgs 6:1

1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

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