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2 Chronicles 2
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- And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of
the LORD, and an 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
an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
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- Behold, I build an 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 shewbread, 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 an house, seeing the heaven
and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build
him an house, 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.
- 11
- 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 an house for the
LORD, and an 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.
- 17
- 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 an 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 a work.
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