1 Kings 9:2

This appearance is fixed by 1 Kings 9:1 to Solomon’s twenty-fourth year, the year in which he completed his palace 1 Kings 6:37; 1 Kings 7:1. The fact seems to be that, though the temple was finished in Solomon’s eleventh year, the dedication did not take place until his twenty-fourth year. The order of the narrative in Kings agrees with this view, since it interposes the account of the building of the palace 1 Kings 7:1, and of the making of the furniture 1 Kings 7:13, between the completion of the building of the temple 1 Kings 6:38 and the ceremony of the Dedication 1 Kings 8.