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2 Chronicles 3:2
2 Chronicles 3:2 is verse 2 of 2 Chronicles chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
King James Version
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
World English Bible
He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
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2 Chronicles 3:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3 The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
4 The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 6:1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.