2 Chronicles 3:3

Solomon Builds the Temple

1 Now ^aSolomon began to build the house of the Lord at ^bJerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of ^cOrnan the Jebusite.

2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

3 This is the foundation ^awhich Solomon laid for building the house of God: The length was sixty cubits (by cubits according to the former measure) and the width twenty cubits.

4 And the ^avestibule that was in front of¹ the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was² one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5 ^aThe larger¹ room he ^bpaneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it.

Commentaries:

Matthew Henry

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The building of the temple.

- There is a more particular account of the building of the I Kings 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.

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