1 Kings 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ³  in the month Ethanim ⁴  (the seventh month).

1 Kings 6:1

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 ⁵  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

¹ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

³ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

⁴ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

⁵ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.