{"id":7124,"date":"2023-09-20T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:35:40","slug":"2-chronicles-31-now-solomon-began-to-build-the-house-of-the-lord-at-jerusalem-on-mount-moriah-where-the-lord-had-appeared-to-his-father-david-at-the-place-that-david-had-prepared-on-the-threshin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7124","title":{"rendered":"2 Chronicles 3:1: “Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Solomon built the temple on Mount Moriah, the summit of the mountain where Abraham willingly went to sacrifice his son Isaac approximately 1000 years before (Genesis 22). And it is where God’s Son, the Messiah, was sacrificed approximately 1000 years later. From the New Testament we are told that all these things were planned out \u201cbefore the foundation of the world.\u201d We know God loves us and has a wonderful plan for our lives. And it\u2019s easy to agree with this statement when we like the plan, but often God\u2019s plan turns out to be different from what we were thinking it would be.<\/p>\n

In Jeremiah 29, we read how in the year 597 BC, God judged the nation of Judah because of their unfaithfulness. The Babylonians attacked Jerusalem and took 3000 prisoners back to Babylon, including the king, the court officials, and the craftsmen. The Jews were saying, \u201cThis wasn\u2019t supposed to happen to us! We\u2019re the chosen people! We\u2019re the apple of God\u2019s eye! What is going on?\u201d God spoke words of grace and peace to His people in their captivity, and they still ring true for us today: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jer. 29:11).<\/p>\n

God\u2019s plan is always the best. Even if we don\u2019t understand it at the time, and even if it\u2019s something we never would have chosen for ourselves. So when the plan goes differently, when trials and difficulties come, how do we remain focused and steady? We must stay in God’s word. Nothing has changed about God since Abraham, Solomon, Jeremiah, or Jesus. God still wants to give you and me a future and a hope.<\/p>\n

“LORD, help us to remain in the center of Your will and love this day.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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2 Chronicles 3 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0Then Solomon began to build the house of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where\u00a0the\u00a0LORD\u00a0<\/em>appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And he began to build in the second\u00a0day\u00a0<\/em>of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3<\/sup>\u00a0Now these\u00a0are the things wherein\u00a0<\/em>Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.\u00a0\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And the porch that\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>in the front\u00a0of the house\u00a0<\/em>, the length\u00a0of it was\u00a0<\/em>according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>gold of Parvaim.\u00a0\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And he made the most holy house, the length whereof\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold,\u00a0amounting\u00a0<\/em>to six hundred talents.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And the weight of the nails\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10<\/sup>\u00a0And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And the wings of the cherubims\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>twenty cubits long: one wing\u00a0of the one cherub was\u00a0<\/em>five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing\u00a0was likewise\u00a0<\/em>five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0one<\/em>wing of the other cherub\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>five cubits\u00a0also\u00a0<\/em>, joining to the wing of the other cherub.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>inward.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And he made the vail\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>on the top of each of them\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>five cubits.\u00a0 16<\/sup>\u00a0And he made chains,\u00a0as\u00a0<\/em>in the oracle, and put\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>on the chains.\u00a017<\/sup>And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solomon built the temple on Mount Moriah, the summit of the mountain where Abraham willingly went to sacrifice his son Isaac approximately 1000 years before (Genesis 22). And it is where God’s Son, the Messiah, was sacrificed approximately 1000 years later. From the New Testament we are told that all these things were planned out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16352,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/16352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}