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2 Chronicles 3:1
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Solomon initiating the temple construction in Jerusalem during his reign. The account marks the chronological shift from David’s preparatory work to Solomon’s execution of the building project.
The words — וַ/יָּ֣חֶל (va/i.Ya.chel) means "and he began," marking the formal start of the project. בְּ/הַר֙ (be./Har) translates to "on the mountain," identifying the specific elevation of Mount Moriah.
The thread — The location appears in Genesis 22:2 and Genesis 22:14 as the site of Abraham’s test and God’s provision. It also connects to 1 Chronicles 21:18, where David purchased the threshing floor after the angel’s appearance.
Why it lands — The text states that the temple site was chosen where God previously appeared and where David specifically prepared the ground. It requires the reader to acknowledge that worship locations are established through recorded divine encounters and deliberate human preparation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Cross-references
- Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:18 Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Genesis 22:2 “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- 1 Chronicles 22:1 Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
- 1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 2 Samuel 24:18 And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”