^9 (A)So he built the ^[a]temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.

³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month of ^[a]Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. So he was ^(A)seven years in building it.

¹⁴ So Solomon built the temple and finished it.