38 and in the eleventh year, in the lunar month of Bul,* that is, the eighth month, the house was finished+ as regards all its details and all its plan;+ so that he was seven years at building it.

7 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of Jehovah into its place, into the innermost+ room of the house, into the Most Holy,+ to underneath the wings of the cherubs.+