1 Kings 9:1

“And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, etc.] Which was done in seven years, (<110638>1 Kings 6:38). and the king’s house; his own palace, which was finished in thirteen years, (<110701>1 Kings 7:1), and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do; all his other buildings, the house for Pharaoh’s daughter, the house of the forest of Lebanon, and may include his vineyards, gardens, orchards, and pools of water, made for his pleasure, (<210204>Ecclesiastes 2:4-6) in which he succeeded and prospered, (<140711>2 Chronicles 7:11).”

“GOD'S COVENANT IN A SECOND VISION WITH SOLOMON. (Kg1 9:1-9) And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house--This first verse is connected with Kg1 9:11, all that is contained between Kg1 9:2-10 being parenthetical.”

“am 3013, bc 991 it came: Kg1 6:37, Kg1 6:38, Kg1 7:1, Kg1 7:51; Ch2 7:11-22 the house: Ch2 8:1-6; Ecc 2:4 all Solomon's: Kg1 9:11, Kg1 9:19; Ecc 2:10, Ecc 6:9 3 Kings (1 Kings) 9:2”

“The Answer of the Lord to Solomon's Dedicatory Prayer (cf. Ch2 7:11-22). \- Kg1 9:1, Kg1 9:2. When Solomon had finished the building of the temple, and of his palace, and of all that he had a desire to build, the Lord appeared to him the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon, i.e., by night in a dream (see Kg1 3:5), to promise him that his prayer should be answered. For the point of time, see at Kg1 8:1. כּל־חשׁק, all Solomon's desire or pleasures, is paraphrased thus in the Chronicles: לב על כּל־הבּא, "all that came into his mind," and, in accordance with the context, is very properly restricted to these two principal buildings by the clause, "in the house of Jehovah and in his…”