Building the Temple

Solomon began to build the temple for the Lord in the four hundred eightieth year(A) after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:1 April–May

Building the Temple

Then Solomon began(A) to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah(B) where the Lord[a] had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan[b] the Jebusite. He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1 LXX; Tg reads the angel of the Lord; MT reads he
  2. 3:1 = Araunah in 2Sm 24:16–24

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