2Chronicles:2

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web @2Chronicles:2:1 @Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh , and a house for his kingdom . web @2Chronicles:2:2 @Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens , and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains , and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them . web @2Chronicles:2:3 @Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre , saying , "As you dealt with David my father , and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell , so deal with me . web @2Chronicles:2:4 @Behold , I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God , to dedicate it to him , and to burn before him incense of sweet spices , and for the continual show bread , and for the burnt offerings morning and evening , on the Sabbaths , and on the new moons , and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God . This is an ordinance forever to Israel . web @2Chronicles:2:5 @"The house which I build is great ; for our God is great above all gods . web @2Chronicles:2:6 @But who is able to build him a house , since heaven and the heaven of heavens can 't contain him ? who am I then , that I should build him a house , except just to burn incense before him ? web @2Chronicles:2:7 @"Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold , and in silver , and in brass , and in iron , and in purple , and crimson , and blue , and who knows how to engrave engravings , to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem , whom David my father provided . web @2Chronicles:2:8 @"Send me also cedar trees , fir trees , and algum trees , out of Lebanon ; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon : and behold , my servants shall be with your servants , web @2Chronicles:2:9 @even to prepare me timber in abundance ; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful . web @2Chronicles:2:10 @Behold , I will give to your servants , the cutters 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 ." web @2Chronicles:2:11 @Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing , which he sent to Solomon , "Because Yahweh loves his people , he has made you king over them ." web @2Chronicles:2:12 @Huram continued , "Blessed be Yahweh , the God of Israel , that made heaven and earth , who has given to David the king a wise son , endowed with discretion and understanding , that should build a house for Yahweh , and a house for his kingdom . web @2Chronicles:2:13 @Now I have sent a skillful man , endowed with understanding , of Huram my father 's , web @2Chronicles:2:14 @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 brass , in iron , in stone , and in timber , in purple , in blue , and in fine linen , and in crimson , also to engrave any kind of engraving , and to devise any device ; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men , and with the skillful men of my lord David your father . web @2Chronicles:2:15 @"Now therefore the wheat and the barley , the oil and the wine , which my lord has spoken of , let him send to his servants : web @2Chronicles:2:16 @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 ." web @2Chronicles:2:17 @Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel , after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them ; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred . web @2Chronicles:2:18 @He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens , and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains , and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work .

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