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1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Mori'ah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite. 2He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 3:1-2 (RSV)