2 Chronicles 3:1-3

Christian Standard Bible

Building the Temple

3 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. ² He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. ³ These are Solomon’s foundations^[c] for building God’s temple: the length^[d] was ninety feet,^[e] and the width thirty feet.^[f]