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1Then 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. 2And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 3:1-2 (ASV)