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2 Chronicles 3:1

in 2 Chronicles 3

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 threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where Jehovah appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

KJV

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.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 3

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Where the Lord appeared unto David - The marginal rendering, or “which was shown to David,” is preferred by some; and the expression is understood to point out to David the proper site for the temple by the appearance of the Angels and the command to build an altar 2Sa 24:17-25; 1Ch 21:16-26. In the place that David had prepared - This seems to be the true meaning of the passage, though the order of the words in the original has been accidentally deranged.

This site's exposition

in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared

Chronicles alone names the ground: mount Moriah, the only Old Testament verse joining the temple site to the mountain of Genesis 22, to David's altar at Ornan's threshingfloor in 1 Chronicles 21, and to the place where the Lord appeared to him. Kings never gives the temple a place name at all, so this verse is this book's own contribution to the geography of worship. The bench reads Abraham's mountain and David's altar as one range prepared across centuries for one house.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"That the temple was situated somewhere within the oblong enclosure on Mount Moriah, all topographers are agreed, although there is not the slightest vestige of the sacred fane now remaining; and the greatest diversity of sentiment prevails as to its exact position within that large area, whether in the center of the haram, or in its southwest corner" [BARCLAY].

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

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

20 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.

  • וַיָּ֣חֶלand he began

    vaiyachelH2490143 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֗הSolomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • לִבְנ֤וֹתto build

    livnotH1129376 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H10042046 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389643 times

  • בְּהַר֙on [the] mountain of

    beharH2022546 times

  • הַמּ֣וֹרִיָּ֔ה<the> Moriah

    hamoriyahH4179

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhere

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • נִרְאָ֖הhe had appeared

    nirahH72001300 times

  • לְדָוִ֣ידto David

    ledavidH1732999 times

  • אָבִ֑יהוּfather his

    ʾavihuH11212 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • הֵכִין֙he had prepared

    hekhinH3559217 times

  • בִּמְק֣וֹםin [the] place of

    bimkomH4725401 times

  • דָּוִ֔ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • בְּגֹ֖רֶןon [the] threshing floor of

    begorenH1637

  • אָרְנָ֥ןOrnan

    ʾarenanH771

  • הַיְבוּסִֽי׃the Jebusite

    hayvusiH2983

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

The walk

8 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

    Genesis 22:2

    “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will…

    it leads to

    • John 3:16

      For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

    • Romans 8:32

      He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

    • Hebrews 11:17

      By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

  • Through

    Genesis 22:14

    And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

    it leads to

    • Genesis 22:13

      Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of…

    • Exodus 17:15

      And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.

    • Judges 6:24

      So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

    • Genesis 22:8

      Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

    • Genesis 16:13–14

      So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.