“And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.”
"In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD." — The *chronological framework* is explicit: *ba-shnat arba meot u-shmonim le-tze'et beney Yisra'el me-Eretz Mitzrayim...ba-shnat ha-reviyit le-melukhato...ba-chadesh Ziv* (in the four hundred and eightieth year after Israel came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign, in the month of Ziv). The *480 years* (a symbolic number: 12 generations x 40 years each) links the *Exodus* to the *temple construction*, suggesting a *complete cycle* of redemptive history: liberation, wilderness, conquest, dynasty, sanctuary. The temple construction begins in the *second month* (*Ziv*, later called Iyar), traditionally *spring* and the season for building projects.
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