[¹] The Septuagint and Vulgate have, in the place which David had prepared, in the threshing-floor &c.
[²] Hebrew in the place of David.
[³] In 2 Samuel xxiv. 16, &c., Araunah.
1. in mount Moriah] Genesis xxii. 2.
which he made ready in the place that David had appointed] Read rather, as margin, in the place which David had prepared (so LXX.).
Ornan the Jebusite] See 1 Chronicles xxi. 15 ff.
²And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2. in the second day] The words are absent from 1 Kings and should probably be omitted here. The year according to 1 Kings was the four hundred and eightieth after the Exodus.
3 (= 1 Kings vi. 2).
The Measurements of the Temple.
³Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for[¹] the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.