2Chr 3:1 Cross References
2 Chronicles 3:1
1: So Solomon began to build the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to Solomon's father, King David. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the site that David had selected.
1 Chronicles 21:18
- Then the angel of the LORD told Gad to instruct David to build an altar to the LORD at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Genesis 22:14
- Abraham named the place "The LORD Will Provide." This name has now become a proverb: "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
Genesis 22:2
- "Take your son, your only son--yes, Isaac, whom you love so much--and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you."
2 Samuel 24:18
- That day Gad came to David and said to him, "Go and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
- So David went to do what the LORD had commanded him.
- When Araunah saw the king and his men coming toward him, he came forward and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.
- "Why have you come, my lord?" Araunah asked. And David replied, "I have come to buy your threshing floor and to build an altar to the LORD there, so that the LORD will stop the plague."
- "Take it, my lord, and use it as you wish," Araunah said to David. "Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and you can use the threshing tools and ox yokes for wood to build a fire on the altar.
1 Chronicles 22:1
- Then David said, "This will be the location for the Temple of the LORD God and the place of the altar for Israel's burnt offerings!"
1 Kings 6:1
- It was in midspring, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign, that he began the construction of the Temple of the LORD. This was 480 years after the people of Israel were delivered from their slavery in the land of Egypt.
- The Temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
- The foyer at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple. It projected outward 15 feet from the front of the Temple.
- Solomon also made narrow, recessed windows throughout the Temple.
- A complex of rooms was built against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.