2 Chronicles 3:2

in 2 Chronicles 3

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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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Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

on the second day of the second month

on 2 Chronicles 3:2-7

Where 1 Kings 6:1 names only the month, verse 2 adds the exact day. Gold from Parvaim and “precious stones for beauty” at verse 6 have no parallel in Kings. The “main room” is the chamber Kings calls the house, and Chronicles gives the plan its own vocabulary.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

on Mount Moriah because the Holy One, blessed be He, appeared to David in the threshing floor of Ornan when the plague stopped, and that is Mount Moriah, David’s place.

Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 3:1:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning	Word study	In the Bible
וַ֠יָּחֶל	vaiyachel	and he began	H2490 →	143 times
לִבְנ֞וֹת	livnot	to build	H1129 →	376 times
בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁ	bachodesh	in the month	H2320 →	284 times
הַשֵּׁנִי֙	hasheni	<the> second	H8145 →	156 times
בַּשֵּׁנִ֔י	basheni	on the second [day]	H8145 →	156 times
בִּשְׁנַ֥ת	bishnat	in year	H8141 →	877 times
אַרְבַּ֖ע	ʾarba'	four	H702 →	318 times
לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃	lemalkhuto	of reign his	H4438 →	91 times

וַ֠יָּחֶלand he began
vaiyachelH2490 →143 times
לִבְנ֞וֹתto build
livnotH1129 →376 times
בַּחֹ֤דֶשׁin the month
bachodeshH2320 →284 times
הַשֵּׁנִי֙<the> second
hasheniH8145 →156 times
בַּשֵּׁנִ֔יon the second [day]
basheniH8145 →156 times
בִּשְׁנַ֥תin year
bishnatH8141 →877 times
אַרְבַּ֖עfour
ʾarba'H702 →318 times
לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃of reign his
lemalkhutoH4438 →91 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

Through
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…
it 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.