The building began on the second of the second month, in his fourth year as king.
In context
1Solomon set about building the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where he had appeared to David his father, on the site David had prepared — the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2The building began on the second of the second month, in his fourth year as king. 3These are the foundations Solomon laid for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the older measure, sixty cubits; the width, twenty cubits. 4The portico across the front, running the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid the inside with pure gold.
