And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of the reign of King Solomon over Israel, that the king commanded that they should take great [and] costly stones for the foundation of the house, and hewn stones. And the men of Solomon, and the men of Hiram hewed [the stones], and laid them [for a foundation]. In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month of Ziv, in the second month. In the eleventh year, in the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.

And the porch in front of the temple [was] twenty cubits in length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house. And he built the house, and finished it.

And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark.

And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones; and there was not heard in the house in the building of it [neither] hammer or ax, or any iron tool.

So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

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And He said, Take your son, the beloved one, whom you have loved- Isaac, and go into the high land, and offer him there for a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

And Abraham called the name of that place, The Lord Has Seen; that they might say today, In the mount the Lord was seen.

And Gad came to David in that day, and said to him, Go up, and set up to the Lord and altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

And Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on before him. And Araunah went forth, and bowed down before the king with his face to the earth.

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer to the Lord that which is good in his eyes: behold, [here are] oxen for a whole burnt offering, and the wheels and furniture of the oxen for wood.

And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will surely buy it from you at a fair price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God a whole burnt offering for nothing. So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect an altar to the Lord, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this [is] the altar for whole burnt offering for Israel.