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2 Chronicles 3:1-3
Evangelical Heritage Version

The Construction of the Temple

3 Then Solomon began to build the House of the Lord at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. He constructed it on the site that David had specified,[a] namely, the threshing floor of Ornan[b] the Jebusite. 2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

The Sanctuary

3 Now these are the dimensions of the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house. The length was ninety feet and the width thirty feet.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:1 Or prepared
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:1 In 2 Samuel 24 he is called Araunah or Aravnah.
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:3 The measurements are given in cubits of the old measure, a much disputed term. The translation uses 18-inch cubits. Using a long cubit of 20+ inches, the temple would be 105 feet by 35 feet.
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