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In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts of it, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
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Commentators note that while the text rounds the number to seven years, the project actually took seven and a half years. Construction began in the second month of Solomon's fourth year and ended in the eighth month of his eleventh year. The month of completion, Bul (around modern November), was known as the month of rain.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Seven years - More exactly, “seven years and six months,” since Zif was the second month and Bul was the eighth month ([Reference 1 Kings 6:…
19th Century
Anglican
Bul (the month of “rain”) is about November. The whole time occupied was, therefore, seven years and a half.
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Reformed Baptist
In the eleventh year That is, of the reign of Solomon:
in the month Bul, [which is] the eighth mo…
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