2 Chronicles 3:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַ֠יָּחֶל לִבְנ֞וֹת בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי֙ בַּשֵּׁנִ֔י בִּשְׁנַ֥ת אַרְבַּ֖ע לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ

Transliteration

And wə-yāḥel to libnôt in-ḥōdeš ha-šēnî in-ha-šēnî in-šənat ʾarbaʿ to-malkûtô

Grammar Details

*wə-yāḥel*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he began
*libnôt*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to build
*ḥōdeš*: noun masculine singular construct - month of
*ha-šēnî*: definite article + ordinal number masculine singular - the second
*šənat*: noun feminine singular construct - year of
*ʾarbaʿ*: cardinal number - four
*malkûtô*: noun feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his kingdom/reign

Word Meanings

*wə-yāḥel*: began/started
*libnôt*: to build/to construct
*ha-šēnî*: second (month)/second (day)
*malkûtô*: his kingdom/his reign/his rule

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 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 Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Kgs 6:1-2
2 verses
85%
1And 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 Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.
2And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
2 Chr 3:1
80%
1Then 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.
1 Kgs 6:36-38
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77%
36And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.
38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
2 Chr 2:1-2
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77%
1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
2And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2 Chr 3:3
76%
3Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
1 Kgs 7:1-2
2 verses
73%
1And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
Ezra 3:6
72%
6From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid.
2 Chr 8:1
72%
1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Jehovah, and his own house,
2 Chr 29:3
71%
3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.
1 Kgs 9:10
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10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house
2 Chr 31:7
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7In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
2 Chr 8:16
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16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Jehovah was completed.
1 Kgs 9:1-2
2 verses
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1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
2that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
Exod 40:17
70%
17And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
Hag 1:15
70%
15in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth [month], in the second year of Darius the king.
1 Kgs 5:17-18
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17And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.
18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
Ezra 3:8
70%
8Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah.
2 Chr 2:4
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4Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is [an ordinance] for ever to Israel.
1 Chr 22:2
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2And David commanded to gather together the sojourners that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
1 Chr 22:6-7
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69%
6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Jehovah, the God of Israel.
7And David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God.
1 Kgs 6:14
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14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1 Kgs 3:2
69%
2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
2 Chr 29:17
68%
17Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Ezra 6:4
68%
4with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house.
1 Kgs 6:16
68%
16And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kgs 6:9-11
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68%
9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
10And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
11And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon, saying,
Hag 2:18
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18Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it.
Exod 40:2
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2On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
1 Kgs 9:25
67%
25And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah, burning incense therewith, [upon the altar] that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.
1 Kgs 5:5
67%
5And, behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build the house for my name.
Acts 7:47
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47But Solomon built him a house.
2 Chr 27:3
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3He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
2 Chr 2:9
67%
9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
1 Chr 28:10
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10Take heed now; for Jehovah hath chosen thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
1 Chr 28:2
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2Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.
1 Kgs 6:6
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6The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
1 Kgs 9:15
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15And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
Hag 1:2
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2Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for Jehovah's house to be built.
Ezra 6:15
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15And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
2 Chr 2:12
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