2 Chronicles 3:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Then 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.

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

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Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 3:2-10

The Temple Built. ( b. c. 1012.) 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth… Read the whole commentary →

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