2Chronicles:2

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* Then Solomon gave word to build a house for the Name of Yahweh , and a house for his kingdom . * And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens , and eighty thousand men to hew in the mountain , and , to oversee them , three thousand six hundred . * And Solomon sent unto Huram king of Tyre , saying , As thou didst deal with David my father , and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell in , * lo ! I , am about to build a house for the Name of Yahweh my God , to hallow unto himto burn before him sweet incense , and for a continual setting in array , and to offer ascending-sacrifices morning and evening , on the sabbaths , and on the new moons , and on the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God ,-age-abiding , is this for Israel . * And , the house which I am about to build , great , for great is our God , above all gods . * But who is able to build unto him a house ? for , the heavens , even the heaven of heavens , cannot contain him , who then am , I , that I should build unto him a house , though only to burn incense before him ? * Now , therefore , send me a wise man , to work in gold and in silver and in bronze and in iron , and in purple and crimson and blue , and skilful to execute gravings , with the wise men who are with me , in Judah and in Jerusalem , whom my father David did provide . * And send metimbers of cedar , cypress and sandal-wood , out of the Lebanon , for , I , know that , thy servants , are skilful , to cut the timbers of Lebanon , and lo ! my servants shall be with thy servants : * yea to prepare me timbers in abundance , for , the house which I am about to build , great and most wonderful . * And lo ! for the hewers that cut the timbers , have I given wheat as food for thy servants , twenty thousand measures , and barley , twenty thousand measures , and wine , twenty thousand baths , and oil , twenty thousand baths . * Then answered Huram king of Tyre , in writing , which he sent unto Solomon , Because Yahweh hath loved his people , hath he set thee over them as king . * And Huram said , Blessed be Yahweh , God of Israel , who made the heavens and the earth , who hath given , unto David the king , a wise son , skilled in prudence and understanding , who will build a house for Yahweh , and a house for his kingdom . * Now , therefore , have I sent a wise man , skilled in understanding , pertaining to Huram my father : * son of a woman of the daughters of Dan , whose father was a man of Tyre , skilled to work in gold and in silver , in bronze , in iron , in stones and in timber , in purple , in blue and in fine white linen , and in crimson , and to grave any manner of graving , and to devise any manner of device that may be given to him , with thy wise men , and the wise men of my lord David thy father . * Now , therefore , the wheat and the barley , the oil and the wine , whereof my lord hath spoken , let him send unto his servants ; * and , we , will cut down timbers out of the Lebanon , according to all thy need , and will bring them unto thee in floats , upon the sea to Joppa , and , thou , shalt fetch them up to Jerusalem . * So Solomon numbered all the men that were sojourners , who were in the land of Israel , after the numbering , wherewith David his father had numbered them , and they were found to bea hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred . * And he made up from among themseventy thousand , to bear burdens , and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain , and three thousand and six hundred , as overseers , to keep the people at work .

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