2 Chronicles 3:2 BSB

2 Chronicles 3:2

Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

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ASV

And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

KJV

And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַ֠יָּחֶל	Vai.ya.chel	and he began	H2490 →
לִבְנ֞וֹת	liv.Not	to build	H1129 →
בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁ	ba.Cho.desh	in the month	H2320 →
הַשֵּׁנִי֙	ha.she.Ni	<the> second	H8145 →
בַּשֵּׁנִ֔י	ba.she.Ni	on the second [day]	H8145 →
בִּשְׁנַ֥ת	bish.Nat	in year	H8141 →
אַרְבַּ֖ע	'ar.Ba'	four	H702 →
לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃	le.mal.khu.To	of reign his	H4438 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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1 Kings 6:1
In 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…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 3:1–2
  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…
- Acts 7:47
  But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
- 1 Peter 2:5
  you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 1 Chronicles 29:19
  And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
- 1 Kings 6:37
  The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.

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