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* Then Salomon determined to builde an house for the Name of the Lord , and an house for his kingdome . * And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens , and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain , and three thousand and (note :)Which is to be understood of all sorts of officers and overseers : for else the chief officers were but 3300 as in ( 1Ki_5:16 ).(:note ) six hundred to oversee them . * And Salomon sent to Huram the king of Tyrus , saying , As thou hast done to Dauid my father , and didst sende him cedar trees to buylde him an house to dwell in , so do to me . * Behold , I buylde an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God , to sanctifie it vnto him , and to burne sweete incense before him , and for the continuall shewbread , and for the burnt offrings of the morning and euening , on the Sabbath dayes , and in the new moneths , &amp ; in the solemne feastes of the Lorde our God : this is a perpetuall thing for Israel . * And the house which I buylde , is great : for great is our God aboue all gods . * But who is able to build him an house , seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him ? who [am ] I then , that I should build him an house , save only to burn (note :)That is , to do the service which he has commanded , signifying that no one is able to honour and serve God in the perfection his majesty deserves .(:note ) sacrifice before him ? * Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man that can worke in golde , in siluer , &amp ; in brasse , and in yron , &amp ; in purple , and crimosin &amp ; blue silke , &amp ; that can graue in grauen worke with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah &amp ; in Ierusalem , whom Dauid my father hath prepared . * Send me also cedar trees , fir trees , and (note :)Some take it for Brazil , or the wood called Ebenum , others for coral .(:note ) algum trees , out of Lebanon : for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon ; and , behold , my servants [shall be ] with thy servants , * That they may prepare me timber in abudance : for the house which I doe buylde , is great and wonderfull . * And , behold , I will give to thy servants , the hewers that cut timber , twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat , and twenty thousand measures of barley , and twenty thousand baths of wine , and twenty (note :)Of «bath » read ( 1Ki_7:26 ). It is also called ephah , but an ephah measures dry things as a bath is a measure for liquids .(:note ) thousand baths of oil . * Then Huram King of Tyrus answered in writing which he sent to Salomon , Because the Lorde hath loued his people , he hath made thee King ouer them . * Huram said moreover , Blessed [be ] the LORD God of Israel , that made heaven and earth , who hath given to David the king a (note :)The very heavens confessed that it was a singular gift of God when he gave to any nation a king that was wise and of understanding , though it appears that this Hiram had the true knowledge of God .(:note ) wise son , endued with prudence and understanding , that might build an house for the LORD , and an house for his kingdom . * Now therefore I haue sent a wise man , and of vnderstanding of my father Hurams , * The son of a woman of the (note :)It is also written that she was of the tribe of Naphtali , ( 1Ki_7:14 ) which may be understood that by reason of the confusion of tribes which then began to be , they married in various tribes so that by her father she might be of Dan and by her mother of Naphtali .(:note ) daughters of Dan , and his father [was ] a man of Tyre , skilful to work in gold , and in silver , in brass , in iron , in stone , and in timber , in purple , in blue , and in fine linen , and in crimson ; also to grave any manner of graving , and to find out every device which shall be put to him , with thy cunning men , and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father . * Now therefore the wheate and the barley , the oyle and the wine , which my lorde hath spoken of , let him send vnto his seruants . * And we wil cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou shalt neede , and will bring it to thee in raftes by the sea to Iapho , so thou mayest cary them to Ierusalem . * And Salomon nombred al the strangers that were in the land of Israel , after the nombring that his father Dauid had nombred them : &amp ; they were found an hundreth and three &amp ; fiftie thousand , and sixe hundreth . * And he set seuentie thousande of them to the burden , and fourescore thousande to hewe stones in the mountaine , and three thousande and sixe hundreth ouerseers to cause the people to worke .

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