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 ¹  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said ¹  you would do.”

He ¹  moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.

So David lived in the fortress and called it the City of David. David built all around it, from the terrace inwards.

He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high ¹  and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work. ¹ 

He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. ¹ 

King Hiram of Tyre ¹  sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, ²  and carpenters to build a palace for him.

He summoned his son Solomon and charged him to build a temple for the Lord God of Israel.

All who possessed precious ¹  stones donated them to the treasury of the Lord’s temple, which was under the supervision of Jehiel the Gershonite.

After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,

Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct. ¹ 

We inquired of those elders, asking them, ‘Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?’

They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth ¹  year of the reign of King Darius.

After him the Levites worked – Rehum son of Bani and ¹  after him Hashabiah, head of half the district of Keilah, for his district.

The builders to a man had their swords strapped to their sides while they were building. But the trumpeter ¹  remained with me.

When the wall had been rebuilt and I had positioned the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.

if you become ¹  pure ²  and upright, ³  even now he will rouse himself ⁴  for you, and will restore ⁵  your righteous abode. ⁶