2 Chronicles 3:1-3 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

1. Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, which had been shown to David his father, in the place David had prepared, the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2. He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

3. These were the specifications laid down by Solomon for building the house of God: the length was sixty cubits according to the old measure, and the width was twenty cubits;

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