The Second Book of Chronicles (WEB)
2:1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his
kingdom. 2:2Solomon 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.
2:3Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you did deal with David my father, and did
send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. 2:4Behold, 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. 2:5The house which I build is great; for great is our God above all
gods. 2:6But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens can't
contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before
him? 2:7Now 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 all manner of
engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David
my father did provide. 2:8Send 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, 2:9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to
build shall be great and wonderful. 2:10Behold, 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. 2:11Then 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. 2:12Huram said moreover, 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. 2:13Now I have
sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father's, 2:14the 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 manner 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. 2:15Now
therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him
send to his servants: 2:16and 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. 2:17Solomon
numbered all the sojourners 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.
2:18He 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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