2 Chronicles 3:1-3

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3 Finally the actual construction of the Temple began. Its location was in Jerusalem at the top of Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to Solomon’s father, King David, and where the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite had been. David had selected it as the site for the Temple. ² The actual construction began on the seventeenth day of April in the fourth year of King Solomon’s reign.

³ The foundation was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide.