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Solomon builds the temple

Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord[a] had appeared to his father David, on the place David had prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. He began building in the second month[b] of the fourth year of his rule. Solomon laid the foundations[c] for these structures in order to build the temple of God. The length according to the old standard of measurement was ninety feet and the width thirty feet.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:1 LXX; MT lacks the Lord.
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:2 LXX; MT adds on the second (day).
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:3 Syr the measurements

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