2 Chronicles 3:1

New Living Translation

So Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David, his father. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the site that David had selected.

Cross References

Genesis 22:14

Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

Genesis 22:2

“Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

2 Samuel 24:16

But as the angel was preparing to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented and said to the death angel, “Stop! That is enough!” At that moment the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:18

Then the angel of the Lord told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, “This will be the location for the Temple of the Lord God and the place of the altar for Israel’s burnt offerings!”

1 Chronicles 6:10

Johanan was the father of Azariah, the high priest at the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 3:2

The construction began in midspring, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.

Acts 7:47

But it was Solomon who actually built it.