2 Chronicles 3:2

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 began Solomon, to build the house of Yahweh, in Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where he had appeared unto David his father,—in the place which David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

3And, these, are the things wherein Solomon was grounded for the building of the house of God,—The length, by cubits, in the first measure, was sixty cubits, and, the breadth, twenty cubits.

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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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