³⁷ In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv.^(A)

Solomon Builds the Temple

6 In the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites 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.^(A)

² He began to build on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.