2 Chronicles 3:1
Good News Translation
King David, Solomon's father, had already prepared a place for the Temple. It was in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David, at the place which Araunah the Jebusite had used as a threshing place. King Solomon began the construction

New Revised Standard Version
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.

New American Bible
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, which had been shown to David his father, in the place David had prepared, the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

A.

2993 B.C.

1011 An. Ex. Is.

480
Solomon

1 Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord.

in mount Moriah

Genesis 22:2,14 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee. . . .

where the Lord appeared unto David.

2 Samuel 24:18-25 And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite. . . .

Araunah

1 Chronicles 21:18 And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 22:1 Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.

Context
Temple Construction Begins
1And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.2And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.…
Cross References
Acts 7:47
But Solomon built him a house,

Genesis 22:2
He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.

1 Kings 6:1
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord.

1 Chronicles 6:10
Johanan begot Azarias. This is he that executed the priestly office in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:18
And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 22:1
Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.

2 Chronicles 3:2
And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 2:18
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