2 Chronicles 3:1

New International Reader's Version

Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord. He built it on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. That’s where the Lord had appeared to Solomon’s father David. The Lord had appeared at the threshing floor of Araunah. Araunah was from Jebus. David had provided the threshing floor.

Cross References

Genesis 22:14

So Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide. To this day people say, “It will be provided on the mountain of the Lord.”

Genesis 22:2

Then God said, “Take your son, your only son. He is the one you love. Take Isaac. Go to the place called Moriah. Give your son to me there as a burnt offering. Sacrifice him on the mountain I will show you.”

2 Samuel 24:16

The angel reached his hand out to destroy Jerusalem. But the Lord stopped sending the plague. So he spoke to the angel who was making the people suffer. He said, “That is enough! Do not kill any more people.” The angel of the Lord was at Araunah’s threshing floor. Araunah was from the city of Jebus.

1 Chronicles 21:18

Then the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up to the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jebusite. He wanted David to build an altar there to honor the Lord.

1 Chronicles 22:1

David announced, “The house of the Lord God will be built here. Israel’s altar for burnt offerings will also be here.”

1 Chronicles 6:10

Johanan was the father of Azariah. Azariah served as priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 3:2

Solomon began building the temple on the second day of the second month. It was in the fourth year of his rule.

Acts 7:47

But it was Solomon who built the temple for God.