2 Chronicles 3:2
1 Then 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.
Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3 The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
4 The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
- KJV
- And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
- WEB
- He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
- ASV
- And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
- DARBY
- And he began to build on the second of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
- BLB
- And he began to build in the second month, on the second, in the fourth year of his reign.
- ÅB
- Han begynte å bygge den annen dag i den annen måned i det fjerde år av sin regjering.
- OTB
- Han begynte byggingen på den andre dagen i den andre måneden i det fjerde året av hans regjeringstid.
- B1930
- Han begynte å bygge den annen dag i den annen måned i det fjerde år av sin regjering.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.
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