2 Chronicles 3:1-3

Common English Bible

Solomon builds the temple

3 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. ² He began building in the second month^[b] of the fourth year of his rule. ³ 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.