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Solomon Builds the Temple in Jerusalem

Then Solomon began to build the House of Adonai in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah—where Adonai appeared to his father David—at the place that David prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. Now the foundation Solomon laid for the building of the House of God was 60 cubits long and 20 cubits wide, according to the old standard.

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