1 Kings 6:1-2

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Solomon Builds the Temple

6 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.^{[a] 2} The house which King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.