1. Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.
2. He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
3. The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).
4. The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the building and twenty cubits high.He overlaid the inside with pure gold.