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Wide rocky Jerusalem construction site with remnants of an old threshing floor, workers clearing ground; builder Solomon quietly surveys in cream robe blue mantle thin circlet. Use SECOND Solomon portrait identity only. No David or completed temple.
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2 Chronicles 3:1

The Prepared Place

The House Takes Shape · 2 Chronicles 3

Story guide: Architectural reconstruction is interpretive; the exact dimensions are preserved in Scripture. The Ark has not yet been brought into the house.

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1Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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