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2 Chronicles 3 Summary
The Temple's Foundation and Sacred Design
Solomon begins building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah where the Lord appeared to David, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. The construction begins in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. The main structure is sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, with a porch of equal breadth and height of one hundred and twenty cubits, overlaid with pure gold. Solomon builds the Most Holy Place and overlays it with fine gold, and creates two golden cherubims with outspread wings covering the ark.
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2 Chronicles 3:1-2
“Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.”
2 Chronicles 3:8-13
“And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.”
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