Discovery Box1 Kings 5:18--6:1 
Context5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, 1 along with men from Byblos, 2 did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. 3
The Building of the Temple
6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 4 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 6:12
Context6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow 5 my rules, observe 6 my regulations, and obey all my commandments, 7 I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 8
1 tn Heb “builders.”
2 tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”
3 tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”
4 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
5 tn Heb “walk in.”
6 tn Heb “do.”
7 tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”
8 tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”
