2Ch 3:1-6 | ESV | STEP | Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah , where the Lord had appeared to David his father , at the place that David had appointed , on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite .

2 Chronicles 3:1-6

Solomon Builds the Temple

1 ^aThen Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem ^bon Mount Moriah, where the Lord ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks the Lord} had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, ^don 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 are Solomon’s ^emeasurements ^{▼▼Syriac; Hebrew foundations} for building the house of God: ^gthe length, in cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, ^{▼▼Compare 1 Kings 6:3; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. 5 ^jThe nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold ^kand made palms and chains on it. 6 He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.