1005 BC · AM 2999 · United Kingdom
Solomon completes the temple structure
Solomon built the temple with its rooms, inner sanctuary, cedar paneling, carved cherubim, gold overlay, and folding doors. The house was completed in the eleventh year after seven years of construction (1 Kings 6:2-38), about 1005 BC.
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📖 1 Kings 6:2–4
2The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. 3The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple. 4He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.