Building the Temple

1 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.

Footnotes:

a. 2 Chronicles 3:1: LXX; Tg reads the Angel of the Lord; MT reads He
b. 2 Chronicles 3:1: Araunah in 2Sm 24:16-24

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