So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.

In the eighth month, the month of Bul, in the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, the Temple was completely finished exactly as it had been planned. It had taken Solomon seven years to build it.

But it was Solomon who built him a house.

"But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says,