2 Chronicles 2
Solomon's Agreement
with King Huram |
1 Kgs. 5.1 · 14.1 |
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And Solomon determined to build a house
for the name of the LORD, and a house for his
kingdom.
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And Solomon told out threescore and ten
thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the
mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee
them.
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And Solomon sent to Huram the king of
Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst
send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so
deal with me.
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Behold, I build 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 for
ever to Israel.
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And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
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But who is able to build him a house,
seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, 1 Kgs. 8.27 · 2 Chr. 6.18 save only to burn sacrifice before him?
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Send me now therefore a man cunning to
work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in
purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the
cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom
David my father did provide.
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Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and
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,
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even to prepare me timber in abundance:
for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful
great.
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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 thousand baths of oil.
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Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in
writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king
over them.
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Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and
earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with
prudence and understanding, that might build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.
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And now I have sent a cunning man,
endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,
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the son of a woman of the 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.
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Now therefore the wheat, and the barley,
the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send
unto his servants:
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and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as
much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by
sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
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And Solomon numbered all the strangers
that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering
wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a
hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six
hundred.
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And he set threescore and ten thousand of
them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to
be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred
overseers to set the people awork.
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