1 Kings 6:1
“Where it says, "in the fourth year in the month of Zio, which is the second month of the reign of Solomon over Israel," the intended order is, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon in the month of Zio, that is, the second month. He calls the second month May, for April, in which the Pasch, the principal feast amo…”
Source: Septuagint
1And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of the reign of King Solomon over Israel, a that the king commanded that they should take great and costly stones for the foundation of the house, and hewn stones. b And the men of Solomon, and the men of Hiram hewed the stones, and laid them for a foundation. c In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziv, even in the second month. d In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, this is the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.
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— 1 Kings 6:1 —
2And the house which the king built to the Lord was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits.
3And the porch in front of the temple—twenty cubits was its length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it.