2 Chronicles 3:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 It happened 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 Yahweh.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    1 It happened 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 Yahweh.

    2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

  • 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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    36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

    37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.

    38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

    2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

  • 3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

    2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

  • 6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.

  • 1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

  • 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.

  • 10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house

  • 7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

  • 16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Yahweh was completed.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

    2 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

  • 17 It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.

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

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    17 The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  • 8 Now in the second year of their coming to 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 brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.

  • 4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.

  • 2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

    7 David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

  • 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

  • 2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

  • 17 Now 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 Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

  • 4 with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house.

  • 16 He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to 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
    3 verses
    68%

    9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

    10 He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

  • 18 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.

  • 2 "On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.

  • 25 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

  • 5 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for my name.'

  • 47 But Solomon built him a house.

  • 3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

  • 9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."

  • 2 Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, "Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.

  • 6 The 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 all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

  • 15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 2 "This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'"

  • 15 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.

  • 12 Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.