Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
This appearance is fixed by I Kings 9:1 to Solomon' s twenty-fourth year, the year in which he completed his palace I Kings 6:37-38; I Kings 7:1. The fact seems to be that, though the temple was finished in Solomon' s eleventh year, the dedication did not take place until his twenty-fourth year. The order of the narrative in Kings agrees with this view, since it interposes the account of the building of the palace I Kings 7:1-12, and of the making of the furniture I Kings 7:13-51, between the completion of the building of the temple I Kings 6:38 and the ceremony of the Dedication I Kings 8.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 9:2:
Exodus 40:34-35
2 Chronicles 7:11
Isaiah 9:1
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