Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

31 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared [1] unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Other Translations of 2 Chronicles 3:1

New International Version

Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

31 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of AraunahHebrew "Ornan," a variant of "Araunah" the Jebusite, the place provided by David.

English Standard Version

Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

31 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord Septuagint; Hebrew lacks the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

The Message

Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

31 So Solomon broke ground, launched construction of the house of God in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, the place where God had appeared to his father David. The precise site, the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, had been designated by David.

New King James Version

Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

31 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.

New Living Translation

Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

31 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.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 3:1

Chapter Contents

The building of the temple.

There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1 Kings 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.