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Chapter 2
- 2:1
- And Solomon determined to build an
house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
- 2:2
- 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.
- 2:3
- 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.
- 2:4
- 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.
- 2:5
- And the house which I build is
great: for great is our God above all gods.
- 2:6
- 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?
- 2:7
- 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.
- 2:8
- 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,
- 2:9
- Even to prepare me timber in
abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful
great.
- 2:10
- 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.
- 2:11
- 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.
- 2:12
- 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.
- 2:13
- And now I have sent a cunning man,
endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,
- 2:14
- 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.
- 2:15
- Now therefore the wheat, and the
barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him
send unto his servants:
- 2:16
- 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.
- 2:17
- 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.
- 2:18
- 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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