1 KINGS CHAPTER 7 The building of Solomon's house: the house of Lebanon, 1 Kings 7:1-5. The porch of pillars, and of judgment: the house of Pharaoh's daughter, 1 Kings 7:6-12. Hiram's work of the two pillars of brass, 1 Kings 7:13-22. Of the molten, sea, 1 Kings 7:23-26. Of the ten bases of brass, 1 Kings 7:27-37. The ten brasen lavers: all the vessels of brass and gold, 1 Kings 7:38-50. The dedicated things are brought into the temple, 1 Kings 7:51. His own house; the royal palace for himself, and for his successors. Or, his houses, the singular number being put for the plural. Thirteen years; almost double time to that in which the temple was built; because neither were the materials so far provided and prepared for this as they were for the temple; nor did either he or his people use the same alacrity and diligence in this as in the other work; nor had they the same obligations to this work as they had to that, to which they were quickened by God's express command, and by the necessity of setting up God's worship there, as the foundation of all the hopes and happiness both of king and people, whereas his building was only for Solomon's greater conveniency, and he had already a palace of David's building.
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1 Kings 7:1
1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.