1 Kings 5:17

Now in the four hundred and fortieth year of the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of king Solomon’s reign over Israel, the king having given orders for bringing great costly stones for the foundation of the house, even hewn stones;

Thou knewest my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.