Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite — Mount Moriah is explicitly identified as the site where God appeared to David; this locates the temple's foundation on the mountain where Abraham offered Isaac (Genesis 22:2, the binding of Isaac). The phrase 'where the LORD had appeared to David' refers to the theophany during the plague, when David encountered the angel at Ornan's threshing floor (2 Samuel 24:16–25). This theological geography ties together patriarchal (Abraham), early monarchic (David), and later Solomonic eras, suggesting that God has consistently chosen this location for manifestation. The purchase of Ornan's threshing floor by David established legal claim. The Chronicler's explicit equation of Moriah with the temple mount demonstrates sophisticated theological reflection: the binding site becomes the house site, sacrifice location becomes worship center. This verse grounds the temple in centuries of theophanic geography and covenant history.

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