2 Chronicles 3:1

Temple Construction Begins

1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared ^[a] to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan ^[b] the Jebusite. ¹

2 Chronicles 3:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 3:2

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).

2 Chronicles 3:1 In-Context

1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

3 The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

4 The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5 He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

Cross References

• 1. (1 Kings 6:1–4)

Footnotes

• [a]. See LXX; Hebrew where He had appeared
• [b]. Ornan is a variant of Araunah; see 2 Samuel 24:16.