2Chronicles:2

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* And Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of the LORD , and a house for his kingdom . * And Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens , and eighty thousand as cutters in the mountains , and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them . * And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre , saying , As you dealt with David my father , and sent him cedars to build him a house to dwell in , [so deal with me .] * Behold , I am building a house to the name of the LORD my God , to dedicate [it ] to Him , and to burn before Him sweet incense , and for the continual showbread , and for the burnt offerings morning and evening , on the sabbaths , and on the new moons , and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God . This is an ordinance forever to Israel . * And the house which I am building [is ] great . For our God is great above all gods . * But who is able to build Him a house , since the heavens and heaven of the heavens cannot contain Him ? Who [am ] I then , that I should build Him a house , except only to burn sacrifice before Him ? * And now send me a man skillful to work in gold , and in silver , and in bronze , and in iron , and in purple , and crimson , and blue , and one who is skillful to engrave with the skillful men who [are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem , whom David my father provided . * And send me cedar trees , fir trees , and algum trees out of Lebanon . For I know that your servants are skillful to cut timber in Lebanon . And , behold , my servants [shall be ] with your servants * in order to prepare plenty of timber for me . For the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful . * And behold , I will give to the hewers , those who cut timber , twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat , and twenty thousand measures of barley , and twenty thousand baths of wine , and twenty thousand baths of oil . * And Hiram the king of Tyre answered in writing , which he sent to Solomon , Because the LORD has loved His people , He has made you king over them . * And Hiram said , Blessed [be ] the LORD God of Israel , who made heaven and earth , who has given to David the king a wise son blessed with judgment and understanding , who might build a house for the LORD and a house for his kingdom . * And now I have sent a skillful man blessed with understanding , of Hiram my father , * the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan , and his father [was ] a man of Tyre , skillful to work in gold , and in silver , in bronze , in iron , in stone , and in timber , in purple , in blue , and in fine linen , and in crimson . He also can engrave any kind of engraving , and can invent every device which shall be put to him , with your skillful men , and with the skillful men of my lord David your father . * And now the wheat , and the barley , the oil , and the wine , which my lord has spoken of , let him send to his servants . * And we will cut wood out of Lebanon , as much as you shall need . And we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa . And you shall carry it up to Jerusalem . * And Solomon numbered all the aliens in the land of Israel , according to the numbering with which David his father had numbered them . And they [were ] found to be a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred . * And he set seventy thousand of them [to be ] bearers of burdens , and eighty thousand to be cutters in the mountains , and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people to work .

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