2 Chronicles 3:1 Meaning and Explanation
“Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Solomon begins the temple on Mount Moriah, the very ground where the Lord had appeared to David at the threshingfloor of Ornan.
What Does 2 Chronicles 3:1 Mean?
The long preparation now becomes stone and timber. The Chronicler roots the temple in two memories: Moriah, where Abraham once raised an altar, and the threshingfloor David bought when the Lord stayed the destroying angel. What was a place of testing and mercy becomes the place of worship.
Holiness here is not chosen at random; it grows from where God has met His people before. The site of a stayed judgment becomes the house where atonement is offered, a foreshadowing of the hill outside Jerusalem where mercy and sacrifice would meet again. God builds His dwelling on ground already marked by grace.
2 Chronicles 3:1 in the Original Language
Moriah (מֹרִיָּה) -- the mountain region where the Lord earlier provided in place of Abraham's son (Genesis 22).
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What does 2 Chronicles 3:1 mean?
Solomon begins the temple on Mount Moriah, the very ground where the Lord had appeared to David at the threshingfloor of Ornan.