2 Chronicles 3:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Solomon Builds the Temple

3 Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had designated, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ² He began to build on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign. ³ These are Solomon’s measurements^[a] for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.