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Building the Temple

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. He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. These are Solomon’s foundations[c] for building God’s temple: the length[d] was twenty-seven metres,[e] and the width nine metres.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1 LXX; Tg reads the angel of the Lord ; MT reads he
  2. 3:1 = Araunah in 2Sm 24:16–24
  3. 3:3 Tg reads The measurements which Solomon decreed
  4. 3:3 Lit length – cubits in the former measure
  5. 3:3 Lit 60 cubits
  6. 3:3 Lit 20 cubits, also in vv. 4, 8, 11, 13