^{1 Ref} Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

^{2 Ref} The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

^{3 Ref} And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

^{4 Ref} And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

^{5 Ref} And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.