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It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David. <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/3.htm">New Living Translation</a> 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. <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/3.htm">English Standard Version</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/bsb/2_chronicles/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/3.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/2_chronicles/3.htm">New King James Version</a> Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/nasb_/2_chronicles/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Then 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 prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/3.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then 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 prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/nasb77/2_chronicles/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Then 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 prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/lsb/2_chronicles/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/amp/2_chronicles/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/csb/2_chronicles/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/hcsb/2_chronicles/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Then Solomon began to build the LORD&#8217s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/asv/2_chronicles/3.htm">American Standard Version</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where Jehovah appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/erv/2_chronicles/3.htm">English Revised Version</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/gwt/2_chronicles/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Solomon began to build the LORD's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to his father David. There David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/gnt/2_chronicles/3.htm">Good News Translation</a> 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 <a href="/isv/2_chronicles/3.htm">International Standard Version</a> So Solomon began construction of the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, that is, where David had prepared Ornan the Jebusite's threshing floor. <a href="/msb/2_chronicles/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/net/2_chronicles/3.htm">NET Bible</a> Solomon began building the LORD's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/nheb/2_chronicles/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where he appeared to David his father, at the place that David had designated, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/web/2_chronicles/3.htm">World English Bible</a> Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_chronicles/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And Solomon begins to build the house of YHWH in Jerusalem, on the mount of Moriah where He appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, <a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem, in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, <a href="/slt/2_chronicles/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And Solomon will begin to build the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem in mount Moriah, which was seen to David his father in the place which David prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> 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 href="/cpdv/2_chronicles/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord, in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, as it had been shown to David his father, at the place which David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/3.htm">New American Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nrsvce/2_chronicles/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> 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.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_chronicles/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> THEN Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, in the place which David his father had prepared in the threshing floor which he had bought from Aran the Jebusite. <a href="/hpbt/2_chronicles/3.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And Solomon began to build the house of LORD JEHOVAH in Jerusalem in the mountain of the Amorites, in the place that David his father provided at the threshing floor that he bought from Aran the Yebusite.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_chronicles/3.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father; for which provision had been made in the Place of David, in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. <a href="/sep/2_chronicles/3.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in the mount of Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite. <a href="/parallel/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zGrb4955Tvs?start=431" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_chronicles/3.htm">Temple Construction Begins</a> 1<a href="/hebrew/8010.htm" title="8010: šə·lō·mōh (N-proper-ms) -- David's son and successor to his throne. From shalowm; peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor.">Then Solomon</a> <a href="/hebrew/2490.htm" title="2490: way·yā·ḥel (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to bore, i.e. to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane, to break, to begin; denom. to play.">began</a> <a href="/hebrew/1129.htm" title="1129: liḇ·nō·wṯ (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To build. A primitive root; to build.">to build</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bêṯ- (N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">of the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: bî·rū·šā·lim (Prep-b:: N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">in Jerusalem</a> <a href="/hebrew/2022.htm" title="2022: bə·har (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Mountain, hill, hill country. A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills.">on Mount</a> <a href="/hebrew/4179.htm" title="4179: ham·mō·w·rî·yāh (Art:: N-proper-fs) -- A mountain where Isaac was to be sacrificed. Or Moriyah; from ra'ah and Yahh; seen of Jah; Morijah, a hill in Palestine.">Moriah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">where</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: nir·’āh (V-Nifal-Perf-3ms) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">the LORD had appeared</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: ’ā·ḇî·hū (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">to his father</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: lə·ḏā·wîḏ (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">David.</a> <a href="/hebrew/4725.htm" title="4725: bim·qō·wm (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Or maqom; also mqowmah; or mqomah; from quwm; properly, a standing, i.e. A spot; but used widely of a locality; also of a condition.">This was the place that</a> <a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: dā·wîḏ (N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">David</a> <a href="/hebrew/3559.htm" title="3559: hê·ḵîn (V-Hifil-Perf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to be erect; hence to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal, or figurative.">had prepared</a> <a href="/hebrew/1637.htm" title="1637: bə·ḡō·ren (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Threshing floor. From an unused root meaning to smooth; a threshing- floor; by analogy, any open area.">on the threshing floor</a> <a href="/hebrew/771.htm" title="771: ’ā·rə·nān (N-proper-ms) -- A Jebusite. Probably from 'oren; strong; Ornan, a Jebusite.">of Ornan</a> <a href="/hebrew/2983.htm" title="2983: hay·ḇū·sî (Art:: N-proper-ms) -- Inhab. of Jebus. Patrial from Ybuwc; a Jebusite or inhabitant of Jebus.">the Jebusite.</a> 2Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/1_kings/6-1.htm">1 Kings 6:1</a> In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD. <a href="/1_kings/8-29.htm">1 Kings 8:29</a> May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place. <a href="/1_kings/9-3.htm">1 Kings 9:3</a> And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time. <a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm">2 Samuel 24:18-25</a> And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” / So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded. / When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king. ... <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Genesis 22:2</a> “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.” <a href="/1_chronicles/21-18.htm">1 Chronicles 21:18-30</a> Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. / So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD. / Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. ... <a href="/1_chronicles/22-1.htm">1 Chronicles 22:1</a> Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.” <a href="/1_chronicles/28-10.htm">1 Chronicles 28:10</a> Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.” <a href="/1_chronicles/29-1.htm">1 Chronicles 29:1</a> Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God. <a href="/psalms/132-13.htm">Psalm 132:13-14</a> For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home: / “This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home. <a href="/isaiah/2-2.htm">Isaiah 2:2-3</a> In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. / And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. <a href="/isaiah/56-7.htm">Isaiah 56:7</a> I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.” <a href="/matthew/21-12.htm">Matthew 21:12-13</a> Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. / And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” <a href="/mark/11-15.htm">Mark 11:15-17</a> When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. / And He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. / Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” <a href="/luke/19-45.htm">Luke 19:45-46</a> Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there. / He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.A.<a href="/1_kings/6-1.htm">1 Kings 6:1</a> And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.in mount Moriah<a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Genesis 22:2,14</a> And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of… where the Lord appeared unto David.<a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm">2 Samuel 24:18-25</a> And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite… Araunah<a href="/1_chronicles/21-18.htm">1 Chronicles 21:18</a> Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.<a href="/1_chronicles/22-1.htm">1 Chronicles 22:1</a> Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/1-7.htm">Appeared</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm">Appointed</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-12.htm">Build</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm">Floor</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-12.htm">House</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm">Jebusite</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-16.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Moriah</a> <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Mori'ah</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/10-8.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm">Ornan</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/1-4.htm">Prepared</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-19.htm">Provision</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/1-4.htm">Ready</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">Solomon</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm">Threshingfloor</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm">Threshing-Floor</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_chronicles/7-12.htm">Appeared</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/8-13.htm">Appointed</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-2.htm">Build</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/5-1.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/18-9.htm">Floor</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-3.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/8-7.htm">Jebusite</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/5-2.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Moriah</a> <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Mori'ah</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/10-18.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/21-15.htm">Ornan</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/8-16.htm">Prepared</a> <a href="/nehemiah/11-23.htm">Provision</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/17-18.htm">Ready</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-3.htm">Solomon</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/18-9.htm">Threshing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-33.htm">Threshingfloor</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/18-9.htm">Threshing-Floor</a><div class="vheading2">2 Chronicles 3</div>1. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">The place and time of building the temple</a> 3. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-3.htm">The measure and ornaments of the house</a> 11. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-11.htm">The cherubim</a> 14. <a href="/2_chronicles/3-14.htm">The veil and pillars</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Solomon, the son of David, fulfills the divine promise made to David that his son would build a house for God's name (<a href="/2_samuel/7-12.htm">2 Samuel 7:12-13</a>). The "house of the LORD" refers to the Temple, which would become the central place of worship for the Israelites, symbolizing God's presence among His people. The construction of the Temple signifies a new era of worship, transitioning from the portable Tabernacle to a permanent structure.in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah Mount Moriah holds deep historical and spiritual significance. It is traditionally identified as the location where Abraham was willing to sacrifice Isaac (<a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Genesis 22:2</a>), demonstrating faith and obedience. This connection underscores the Temple's role as a place of sacrifice and worship. Jerusalem, the city chosen by God, becomes the political and spiritual center of Israel. The choice of Mount Moriah for the Temple's location highlights the continuity of God's plan and the fulfillment of His promises.where the LORD had appeared to his father David This appearance refers to the divine encounter David had when he purchased the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (<a href="/1_chronicles/21-18.htm">1 Chronicles 21:18-28</a>). The LORD's appearance to David at this site underscores its sanctity and divine selection as the Temple's location. It also reflects God's mercy, as the site was where the plague on Israel ceased after David's intercession. This divine encounter emphasizes the importance of obedience and repentance in the relationship between God and His people.This was the place that David had prepared David's preparation involved purchasing the threshing floor and gathering materials for the Temple's construction (<a href="/1_chronicles/22-2.htm">1 Chronicles 22:2-5</a>). Although David was not permitted to build the Temple due to his history as a warrior (<a href="/1_chronicles/28-3.htm">1 Chronicles 28:3</a>), his preparations laid the groundwork for Solomon's task. This preparation reflects David's devotion and desire to honor God, as well as the continuity of leadership and vision from David to Solomon.on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite The threshing floor of Ornan, a Jebusite, was a significant site due to its association with David's repentance and God's mercy (<a href="/1_chronicles/21-18.htm">1 Chronicles 21:18-28</a>). The purchase of this site by David transformed it from a place of judgment to one of worship and reconciliation. The Jebusites were the original inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the acquisition of this land signifies the transition of the city into the hands of the Israelites, further establishing Jerusalem as the center of Israelite worship and governance.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a> The son of King David and Bathsheba, Solomon was the third king of Israel, known for his wisdom and for building the first temple in Jerusalem. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_house_of_the_lord.htm">The House of the LORD</a> Refers to the temple that Solomon built, which became the central place of worship for the Israelites and housed the Ark of the Covenant. 3. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The capital city of Israel, chosen by God as the place where His name would dwell. It holds significant historical and spiritual importance. 4. <a href="/topical/m/mount_moriah.htm">Mount Moriah</a> The location where Solomon built the temple. It is also traditionally associated with the binding of Isaac by Abraham, highlighting its deep spiritual significance. 5. <a href="/topical/o/ornan_the_jebusite.htm">Ornan the Jebusite</a> The original owner of the threshing floor where the temple was built. David purchased this site, which was later prepared for the temple construction.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience_and_preparation.htm">The Importance of Obedience and Preparation</a> Solomon's building of the temple was a fulfillment of God's promise to David. It underscores the importance of obedience to God's instructions and the preparation that precedes fulfilling His plans. <a href="/topical/s/significance_of_sacred_spaces.htm">Significance of Sacred Spaces</a> The temple on Mount Moriah highlights the importance of having dedicated spaces for worship and encountering God. It reminds us to honor and maintain our places of worship. <a href="/topical/l/legacy_and_continuity_of_faith.htm">Legacy and Continuity of Faith</a> The connection between David's preparation and Solomon's building of the temple illustrates the continuity of faith and legacy. It encourages us to consider how our actions today can impact future generations. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_to_his_promises.htm">God's Faithfulness to His Promises</a> The construction of the temple is a testament to God's faithfulness in fulfilling His promises. It encourages believers to trust in God's timing and faithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_chronicles_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Chronicles 3</a> <a href="/q/why_is_solomon's_temple_dedication_important.htm">What is the significance of Solomon's Temple dedication?</a> <a href="/q/why_is_the_dome_of_the_rock_important.htm">What is the significance of the Dome of the Rock?</a> <a href="/q/what_was_solomon's_temple_for.htm">What was the purpose of Solomon's Temple?</a> <a href="/q/evidence_for_genesis_22_events.htm">Where is the historical or archaeological evidence for these events in Genesis 22? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_chronicles/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(a) SITE AND DATE (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/3-1.htm" title="Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.">2Chronicles 3:1-2</a>).(1) At Jerusalem in mount Moriah.--Nowhere else in the Old Testament is the Temple site so specified. (Comp. "the land of Moriah," the place appointed for the sacrifice of Isaac, <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm" title="And he said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and get you into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.">Genesis 22:2</a>.)Where the Lord appeared unto David his father.--So LXX.; rather, who appeared unto David his father. Such is the meaning according to the common use of words. There is clearly an allusion to the etymology of MORIAH, which is assumed to signify "appearance of Jah." (Comp. <a href="/genesis/22-14.htm" title="And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.">Genesis 22:14</a>.) Translate, "in the mount of the Appearance of Jah, who appeared unto David his father." The Vulgate reads: "in Monte Moria qui demonstratus fuerat David patri ejus;" but nir'ah never means to be shown or pointed out. The Syriac, misunderstanding the LXX. (??????), renders "in the hill of the Amorites."In the place that David had prepared.--This is no doubt correct, as the versions indicate. The Hebrew has suffered an accidental transposition.In the threshingfloor of Ornan.--<a href="/1_chronicles/21-28.htm" title="At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.">1Chronicles 21:28</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/22-1.htm" title="Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.">1Chronicles 22:1</a>. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_chronicles/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 1. - Mount Moriah. This name מוריָה occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here and <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Genesis 22:2</a>, in which latter reference it is alluded to as "the land of Moriah," and "one of the mountains" in it is spoken cf. Whether the name designates the same place in each instance is more than doubtful. In the present passage the connection of the place with David is marked. Had it been the spot connected with Abraham and the proposed sacrifice of Isaac, it is at least probable that this also would have been emphasized, and not here only, but in <a href="/2_samuel/24-17.htm">2 Samuel 24:17-25</a> and <a href="/1_chronicles/21-16.htm">1 Chronicles 21:16-26</a>; but in neither of these places is there the remotest suggestion of such fame of old belonging to it. Nor in later passages of history (e.g. Nehemiah's rebuilding, and in the prophets, and the New Testament), where the opportunities would have been of the most tempting, is there found one single suggestion of the kind. There am also at fewest two reasons of a positive and intriusic character against Solomon's Moriah being Abraham's - in that this latter was a specially conspicuous height (<a href="/genesis/22-4.htm">Genesis 22:4</a>), and was a secluded and comparatively desolate place, neither of which features attach to Solomon's Moriah. Nevertheless the identity theory is stoutly maintained by names as good as those of Thomson ('Land and the Book,' p. 475); Tristram ('Land of Israel,' p. 152); Hengstenberg ('Genuineness of Pentateuch, 2:162, Ryland's tr.); Kurtz ('History of O. C.,' 1:271); and Knobel and Kalisch under the passage in Genesis - against Grove (in Dr. Smith's ' Bible Dictionary'); Stanley (' Sinai and Palestine,' p. 251;'Jewish Church,' 1. 49); De Wette, Bleek, and Tischendorf [see 'Speaker's Commentary,' under <a href="/genesis/22-2.htm">Genesis 22:2</a>]. Though there is some uncertainty as to the more exact form of the derivation of the name Moriah, it seems most probable that the meaning of it may be "the sight of Jehovah." Where the Lord appeared unto David his father. The clause is no doubt elliptical, and probably it is not to be mended by the inserting of the words," the Lord," as in our Authorized Version. We do not read anywhere that the Lord did then and there appear to David, though we do read that "the angel of the Lord" appeared to him (<a href="/2_samuel/24-16.htm">2 Samuel 24:16</a>, passim; <a href="/1_chronicles/21-15.htm">1 Chronicles 21:15, 19</a>, passim). Nor is it desirable to force the niph. preterite of the verb here, rightly rendered "appeared" or "was seen," into "was shown." We should prefer to solve the difficulty occasioned by the somewhat unfinished shape of the clause (or clauses) by reading it in close relation to <a href="/1_chronicles/22-1.htm">1 Chronicles 22:1</a>. Then the vivid impressions that had been made both by works and words of the angel of the Lord caused David to feel and to say with emphasis, "This is the (destined) house of the Lord God," etc. In this light our present passage would read, in a parenthetic manner, "which (i.e. the house, its Moriah position and all) was seen of David;" or with somewhat more of ease, "as was seen of David;" and the following "in the place," etc., will read in a breath with the preceding "began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem... in the place," etc. David had prepared (so <a href="/1_chronicles/22-2.htm">1 Chronicles 22:2-4</a>). In the threshing-floor of Ornan (so <a href="/2_samuel/24-18.htm">2 Samuel 24:18</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/21-15.htm">1 Chronicles 21:15, 16, 18, 21-28</a>). <a href="/commentaries/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Then Solomon שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה (šə·lō·mōh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8010.htm">Strong's 8010: </a> Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne began וַיָּ֣חֶל (way·yā·ḥel) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2490.htm">Strong's 2490: </a> To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play to build לִבְנ֤וֹת (liḇ·nō·wṯ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1129.htm">Strong's 1129: </a> To build the house בֵּית־ (bêṯ-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house of the LORD יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3069.htm">Strong's 3069: </a> YHWH in Jerusalem בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (bî·rū·šā·lim) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel on Mount בְּהַר֙ (bə·har) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2022.htm">Strong's 2022: </a> Mountain, hill, hill country Moriah, הַמּ֣וֹרִיָּ֔ה (ham·mō·w·rî·yāh) Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4179.htm">Strong's 4179: </a> Moriah -- a mountain where Isaac was to be sacrificed where [the LORD] אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that had appeared נִרְאָ֖ה (nir·’āh) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see to his father אָבִ֑יהוּ (’ā·ḇî·hū) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> Father David. לְדָוִ֣יד (lə·ḏā·wîḏ) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse [This was] the place that בִּמְק֣וֹם (bim·qō·wm) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4725.htm">Strong's 4725: </a> A standing, a spot, a condition David דָּוִ֔יד (dā·wîḏ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse had prepared הֵכִין֙ (hê·ḵîn) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3559.htm">Strong's 3559: </a> To be erect on the threshing floor בְּגֹ֖רֶן (bə·ḡō·ren) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1637.htm">Strong's 1637: </a> A threshing-floor, open area of Ornan אָרְנָ֥ן (’ā·rə·nān) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_771.htm">Strong's 771: </a> Ornan -- a Jebusite the Jebusite. הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ (hay·ḇū·sî) Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2983.htm">Strong's 2983: </a> Jebusite -- inhabitant of Jebus <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">OT History: 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 2:18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 2:18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_chronicles/3-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 3:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 3:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>