And it came to pass. — To this detailed account of the building and consecration of the Temple, ending at 1 Kings 9:9, succeed, first, a notice of a visit of Hiram; and then a section of wholly different character, a series of brief notes (evidently official records), of the works and the government of Solomon, which continues — broken only by the episode of the visit of the Queen of Sheba — to the end of the next chapter.
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1 Kings 9:10
10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,