2 Chronicles 3:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Solomon's workers began building the temple in Jerusalem on the second day of the second month, four years after Solomon had become king of Israel. It was built on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to David at the threshing place that had belonged to Araunah from Jebus.

Cross References

Genesis 22:14

Abraham named that place “The LORD will Provide”. And even now people say, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

Genesis 22:2

The LORD said, “Go and get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar.”

1 Chronicles 21:18

The LORD's angel told the prophet Gad to tell David that he must go to Araunah's threshing place and build an altar in honour of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 22:1

David said, “The temple of the LORD God must be built here at this threshing place. And the altar for offering sacrifices will also be here.”

Acts 7:47

And it was finally King Solomon who built a house for God.