2 Chronicles 3:2
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New International Version (©2011)
He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The construction began in midspring, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He began construction on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

NET Bible (©2006)
He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

American King James Version
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

American Standard Version
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Darby Bible Translation
And he began to build on the second of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

English Revised Version
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

World English Bible
He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Young's Literal Translation
and he beginneth to build in the second day, in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-17 The building of the temple. - There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in #1Ki 6". It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - In the second day. The word "day" as italicized in our Authorized Version type is of course not found in the Hebrew text. Several manuscripts fail also to show the other words of this clause, viz. "In the second;" and that they are probably spurious derives confirmation from the fact that neither the Arabic nor Syriac Versions, nor the Septuagint nor Vulgate translations, produce them. In the second month, in the fourth year. Reading the verse, therefore, as though it began thus, the most interesting but doubtful question of fixing an exact chronology for what preceded Solomon's reign is opened. In our present text there is little sign of anything to satisfy the offers to do so, if only again to disappoint the more grievously. There we read of "four hundred and eighty years" from the Exodus to this beginning of the building of Solomon's temple. Now, this latter date can be determined with tolerable accuracy (viz. as some twenty years before B.C. 1000) by travelling backwards from the date (n.c. 536) of Cyrus taking Babylon, and the beginning of the return from the Captivity ( B.C. 535), making allowance for the seventy years of the Captivity, the duration of the line of separate Judah-kings, and the remanet, a large one, of the years of Solomon's reign. All this, however, helps nothing at all the period stretching from the Exodus to the beginning of the building of the temple. And the events of this period, strongly corroborated by other testimony (see Canon Rawlinson, 'Speaker's Commentary,' vol. it. pp. 575, 576), seem to show convincingly that no faith can be reposed in the authenticity of the chronological statement of our parallel.

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Temple Construction Begins
1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was three score cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.
2 Chronicles 3:3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (using the cubit of the old standard).