2 Chronicles 3:2

King James 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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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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 Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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1 Kgs 6:1-2
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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 Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
2And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
2 Chr 3:1
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1Then 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.
1 Kgs 6:36-38
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36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
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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1And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
2And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2 Chr 3:3
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3Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed 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
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1But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an 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
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6From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
2 Chr 8:1
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1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
2 Chr 29:3
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3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
1 Kgs 9:10
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10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, 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 the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
1 Kgs 9:1-2
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1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
2That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
Exod 40:17
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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
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15In the four and twentieth day of 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 brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Ezra 3:8
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2 Chr 2:4
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4Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD 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 strangers 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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6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
7And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
1 Kgs 6:14
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14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1 Kgs 3:2
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2 Chr 29:17
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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 the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Ezra 6:4
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4With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
1 Kgs 6:16
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16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kgs 6:9-11
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9So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
10And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
11And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
Hag 2:18
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18Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
Exod 40:2
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2On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
1 Kgs 9:25
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1 Kgs 5:5
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47But Solomon built him an house.
2 Chr 27:3
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2 Chr 2:9
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1 Chr 28:10
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10Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
1 Chr 28:2
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1 Kgs 6:6
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1 Kgs 9:15
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