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2 Chronicles 2 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1 - (LXX 1:18) And Solomon said that he would build a house to the name of the Lord, and a house for his kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:2 - (LXX 2:1) And Solomon gathered seventy thousand men that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain, and there were three thousand six hundred superintendents over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 - (LXX 2:2) And Solomon sent to Chiram king of Tyre, saying, Whereas thou didst deal favourably with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build for himself a house to dwell in,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - (LXX 2:3) behold, I also his son am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn incense before him, and to offer shewbread continually, and to offer up whole-burnt-offerings continually morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual statute for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:5 - (LXX 2:4) And the house which I am building is to be great: for the Lord our God is great beyond all gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - (LXX 2:5) And who will be able to build him a house? for the heaven and heaven of heavens do not bear his glory: and who am I, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:7 - (LXX 2:6) And now send me a man wise and skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in blue, and one that knows how to grave together with the craftsmen who are with me in Juda and in Jerusalem, which materials my father David prepared.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - (LXX 2:7) And send me from Libanus cedar wood, and wood of juniper, and pine; for I know that thy servants are skilled in cutting timber in Libanus: and, behold, thy servants shall go with my servants,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:9 - (LXX 2:8) to prepare timber for me in abundance: for the house which I am building must be great and glorious.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - (LXX 2:9) And, behold, I have given freely to thy servants that work and cut the wood, corn for food, even twenty thousand measures of wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:11 - (LXX 2:10) And Chiram king of Tyre answered in writing, and sent to Solomon, saying, Because the Lord loved his people, he made thee king over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - (LXX 2:11) And Chiram said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to king David a wise son, and one endowed with knowledge and understanding, who shall build a house for the Lord, and a house for his kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:13 - (LXX 2:12) And now I have sent thee a wise and understanding man who belonged to Chiram my father

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:14 - (LXX 2:13) (his mother was of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a Tyrian), skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in stones and wood; and to weave with purple, and blue, and fine linen, and scarlet; and to engrave, and to understand every device, whatsoever thou shalt give him to do with thy craftsmen, and the craftsmen of my lord David thy father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:15 - (LXX 2:14) And now, the wheat, and the barley, and the oil, and the wine which my lord mentioned, let him send to his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - (LXX 2:15) And we will cut timber out of Libanus according to all thy need, and we will bring it on rafts to the sea of Joppa, and thou shalt bring it to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:17 - (LXX 2:16) And Solomon gathered all the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:18 - (LXX 2:17) And he made of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers of stone, and three thousand six hundred taskmasters over the people.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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2 Chronicles Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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