^2 (A)Meanwhile the people sacrificed at the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.

³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month of ^[a]Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. So he was ^(A)seven years in building it.

^9 (A)He burned the house of the Lord ^(B)and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, ^(C)he burned with fire.