Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageIn the eleventh year, in the month of Bul—the eighth month—the House stood complete in every detail, faithful to every specification. Seven years Solomon had spent building it.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAnd in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul—that is, the eighth month—the House was finished in all its details and according to all its specifications. He had built it in seven years.
KJV
King James VersionAnd in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleIn the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
Footnotes
Seven years (*sheva shanim*) for construction is a number saturated with theological resonance: the seven days of creation, the seven-branched menorah, the seven-year sabbatical cycle. The Temple completed in seven years presents itself as the culmination of creation's order—God's cosmic House finished as creation itself was finished and declared whole (*shlemah*—sharing its root with *shalom* and the very word used for the quarried stones in v. 7). The month of Bul ('rain/produce') marks Israel's season of autumnal renewal, suggesting a House completed at the moment of new life emerging from the ground. FOG renders the precise historical detail; FOG Message draws the sevenfold resonance into focus, evoking the rest of creation and the *shalom* that settles over the completed House.
