Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

2 Chronicles 3:1-3
Modern English Version

Solomon Builds the Temple(A)

3 So Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, at the place that David established on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 He began to build in the second month[a] on the second day during the fourth year of his reign.[b]

3 These are the foundation measurements that Solomon used for building the house of God. The cubit[c] length in the former standard measure was sixty cubits and the width twenty cubits.[d]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:2 Ziv or Iyyar in the Hebrew calendar.
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:2 April or May in 966 BC.
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:3 The Egyptian cubit had a royal measure of 20.6 inches (52.3cm) and a commercial measure of 17.6 inches (44.7 cm). The cubit standards in Egypt and Mesopotamia were slightly different.
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:3 About 90 feet long and 30 feet wide, or 27 meters long and 9 meters wide.
Next
2 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 4
Next
dropdown
Modern English Version (MEV)

The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House.