# General Information:

The narrator describes the temple and its dimensions with the description continuing through 1 Kings 6:38. Solomon built the temple in seven years. The outside walls were made of rock. Solomon shaped the rocks for the wall in the quarry and then assembled them at the temple site. The inside was covered with wood. Inside the temple was a room covered by gold, which was the Most Holy Place where the ark was housed under statues of angels. It represented the presence of God.

# Solomon began to build

"Solomon commanded his workers to begin building"

# 480th ... fourth

These are the ordinal forms of 480 and 4. 

# in the month of Ziv, which is the second month

"Ziv" is the second month of the Hebrew calendar and the last part of April and first part of May on Western calendars.