2 Chronicles 3:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
    2 verses
    85%

    1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    80%

    1 Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 1 Kgs 6:36-38
    3 verses
    77%

    36 And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

    37 In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.

    38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

    2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

  • 2 Chr 3:3
    76%

    3 And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

    2 And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

  • Ezra 3:6
    72%

    6 From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    72%

    1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 2 Chr 29:3
    71%

    3 In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    71%

    10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 2 Chr 31:7
    71%

    7 The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    71%

    16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

    2 The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;

  • Exod 40:17
    70%

    17 So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up.

  • Hag 1:15
    70%

    15 On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • Ezra 3:8
    70%

    8 Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    69%

    4 See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    69%

    2 And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14
    69%

    14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    69%

    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 2 Chr 29:17
    68%

    17 On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

  • Ezra 6:4
    68%

    4 With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

  • 1 Kgs 6:16
    68%

    16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-11
    3 verses
    68%

    9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

    10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

    11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

  • Hag 2:18
    68%

    18 And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.

  • Exod 40:2
    68%

    2 On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    67%

    25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    67%

    5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

  • Acts 7:47
    67%

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 2 Chr 27:3
    67%

    3 He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    67%

    9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

  • 1 Chr 28:10
    67%

    10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

  • 1 Chr 28:2
    66%

    2 Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

  • 1 Kgs 6:6
    66%

    6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    66%

    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • Hag 1:2
    66%

    2 These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.

  • Ezra 6:15
    66%

    15 And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

  • 2 Chr 2:12
    66%

    12 And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.