And they began to sanctify themselves on the first day of the first month. And on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of Yahweh. And they sanctified the house of Yahweh for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

In the first year of his kingship, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and strengthened them.

And he began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.