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2 Chronicles 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Solomon Prepares to Build the Temple
Solomon Prepares to Build the Temple
(1 Kin. 5:1–18 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1 - Then Solomon determined to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal house for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:2 - Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 - Then Solomon sent to Hiram[fn] king of Tyre, saying:
As you have dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:5 - And the temple which I build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:7 - Therefore send me at once a man skillful to work in gold and silver, in bronze and iron, in purple and crimson and blue, who has skill to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - Also send me cedar and cypress and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and indeed my servants will be with your servants,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:9 - to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the temple which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - And indeed I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:11 - Then Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon:
Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - Hiram[fn] also said:
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal house for himself!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:13 - And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram[fn] my master[fn] craftsman
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:14 - (the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:15 - Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - And we will cut wood from Lebanon, as much as you need; we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, and you will carry it up to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:17 - Then Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census in which David his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:18 - And he made seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew Huram (compare 1 Kings 5:1)
Hebrew Huram (compare 1 Kings 5:1)
Spelled Hiram in 1 Kings 7:13
Literally father (compare 1 Kings 7:13, 14)
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