2 Chronicles 3:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ At length Solomon began building the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, on mount Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David; in the place which David had prepared at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite.

² And he said, Take thy son, thy dear son whom thou hast loved; Isaak; and go to the hilly country and offer him up there for a whole homage offering on one of the hills which I will point out to thee.

¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place, The Lord hath seen, that at this day they might say, On this mountain, The Lord was seen.

¹⁸ Then Gad came to David that day, and said to him, Go up and erect an altar for the Lord, on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up according to the word of Gad, as the Lord had commanded him. ²⁰ And when Orna looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming up to him, he went out and bowed down to the king, with his face to the ground, ²¹ and said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To purchase of thee this threshing floor to build an altar to the Lord, that the slaughter among the people may be stayed. ²² Then Orna said to David, Let my lord the king take, and offer to the Lord what is agreeable to him. Behold here are cattle for a whole burnt offering, and the carts and the yokes of the cattle for fuel. ²³ All these Orna hath given to the king. And may the Lord thy God, said Orna addressing the king, bless thee. ²⁴ But the king said to Orna, No. Let me only purchase them of thee for their full value; for I cannot offer to the Lord my God a whole burnt offering which costeth me nothing. So David purchased the threshing floor, and the cattle, for fifty shekels of silver. ²⁵ And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered whole burnt offerings and peace offerings. Now Solomon afterwards enlarged this altar; for at first it was small. Thus the Lord was entreated for the land, and the slaughter was stopped from Israel.

¹ Now in the four hundred and fortieth year of the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of king Solomon's reign over Israel, the king having given orders for bringing great costly stones for the foundation of the house, even hewn stones; and the men or Solomon and those of Chiram having hewn them, they began laying them. In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month of Ziu, which is the second month, and in the eleventh year, in the month Baal, which is the eighth month, the house with all its appendages was completely finished. ² Now the house which the king built for the Lord, was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty five cubits in height. ³ And the Ailam in front of the temple was twenty cubits in length commensurate with the breadth of the house. And when he had built the house, and finished it ⁴ he made windows for the house, wide within and narrow without ⁵ and placed against the wall of the house, galleries all around the temple and the dabir. ⁶ The lower gallery was five cubits broad, and the middle six, and the third seven cubits broad; for he made ledges to the house, all around on the outside of the house that the beams might not be fastened into the walls of the house. ⁷ Now the house when building was built with white hewn stones, so that not a mallet nor a hammer nor any instrument of iron was heard in the house while it was building. ⁸ The entrance into the lower gallery was under the right shoulder of the house; and there were winding stairs up to the middle and from the middle to the third gallery. ⁹ And when he had compleated the building of the house he wainscotted it with cedar. ¹⁰ And having built the binding walls through the whole house to the height of five cubits, he connected the binding walls with cedar beams. ¹¹ [Omitted] ¹² [Omitted] ¹³ [Omitted] ¹⁴ [Omitted]

¹⁸ Thereupon the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.

¹ David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for whole burnt offerings for Israel.