Text: 2 Chronicles 3:1-2
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 6:1
Subject: Building the temple in Solomon's fourth year
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Both texts date the temple's construction to Solomon's fourth year, but the Chronicler adds a theologically significant detail absent from Kings: the temple was built on Mount Moriah (har ha-Moriyyah), "where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite" (2 Chr 3:1). This connects the temple site to Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac (Gen 22:2) and David's altar after the plague (1 Chr 21), layering the temple location with sacrificial associations stretching back to the patriarchs.
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Text: 1 Kings 6:1
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 3:1-2
Subject: Temple construction begins — parallel dating
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Both passages date the beginning of temple construction to Solomon's fourth year (second month), but with different chronological and theological emphases. Kings counts 480 years from the Exodus, placing the temple in the grand narrative of Israel's journey from Egypt to permanent worship. The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 3:1-2 identifies the temple site as Mount Moriah (הַר הַמּוֹרִיָּה, har hammoriyyah) — the only biblical text outside Genesis 22 to use this name — connecting the temple to the Aqedah (binding of Isaac) and David's purchase of the threshing floor. This identification grounds the temple in the full sweep of sacred geography from patriarchal sacrifice to Solomonic construction.
Consolidated 2026-06-09 (pass #2 — verse-range variant) per the later-text → earlier-text canonical-direction ruling. The content below is preserved verbatim from the deleted file "1 Kings 6.1 to 2 Chronicles 3.1"; fold unique material into the Significance during the Phase 3 IP audit, then remove this section.
Text: 1 Kings 6:1
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 3:1
Subject: building the temple in Solomon's fourth year
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Both texts date the beginning of temple construction, but with different chronological frameworks. In 1 Kings 6:1, the date is anchored to the Exodus: "In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign." The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 3:1 instead identifies the location theologically: "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite." Kings emphasizes temporal continuity with the Exodus; Chronicles emphasizes spatial continuity with Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac on Moriah (Gen 22:2) and David's altar on Ornan's threshing floor.