2 Chronicles 3:1 meaning and explanation

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 Chronicles 3:1, Berean Standard Bible

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The Chronicler opens his account of the temple by anchoring it in a specific place and story. Solomon is the speaker's subject, and the location is Mount Moriah, where God had appeared to David and where David built an altar on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, as told in 1 Chronicles 21.

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