2 Chronicles 2
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Solomon Petitions the King of Tyre
1#2 Chronicles 2:1–18 in the English Bible is 1:18–2:17 in the Hebrew Bible And Solomon planned to build a house for the name of Yahweh and a royal palace for himself.#Literally “house for his kingdom” 2And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to bear burdens#Literally “carriers” and eighty thousand quarriers#Literally “stone craftsmen” in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred men to supervise them. 3And Solomon sent word to Huram#This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram” king of Tyre, saying, “As you have dealt with David my father and sent cedar to him to build for himself a house in which to live, please deal with me. 4Look, I am building a house for the name of Yahweh my God to dedicate to him, to offer sweet spices of incense before him, and for the regular rows of bread, and burnt offerings for mornings, evenings, Sabbaths, and new moon festivals, and for appointed feasts of Yahweh our God which are everlasting for Israel. 5And the house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 6Now who indeed has adequate strength to build a house for him? For the heavens and the highest heavens#Literally “the heavens of the heavens” are not able to contain him. Now who am I that I would build a house for him, except to burn incense before him? 7So then, send to me skilled men to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue fabric, knowledgeable in engraving, with the skilled men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father has established. 8Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants are knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants will be with your servants 9to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful. 10Now see, I will provide twenty thousand dry measures of crushed wheat, twenty thousand dry measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil to the woodcarvers and those who cut timber.”
11Then Huram#This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram” king of Tyre answered in a letter, and he sent word to Solomon: “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.” 12Then Huram#This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram” said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son knowing discretion and understanding, who will build for Yahweh a house and a royal palace for himself. 13So now I have sent a skilled man, knowledgeable and with understanding: my master#Or “my father” Huram, 14a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father. 15Now as for the wheat, barley, oil, and wine that my lord mentioned, let him send that to his servants. 16And we ourselves will cut trees from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them to you on rafts over the sea to Joppa, so that you may bring them up to Jerusalem.”
17Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who were in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand. 18And he appointed from them seventy thousand to bear burdens,#Literally “carriers” eighty thousand to quarry#Literally “stone craftsmen” in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
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