2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 2
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2 Chronicles 2 — Scripture text (King James Version)
And determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom. And told out threescore and ten thousand men to burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. And sent to the king of , saying, As thou didst deal with my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. 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, the sabbaths, and the new moons, and the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to . And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods. 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? 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 and in , whom my father did provide. Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of : for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in ; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great. 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 , and twenty thousand . Then the king of answered in writing, which he sent to , Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of , that made heaven and earth, who hath given to the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom. And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of my father’s, The son of a woman of the daughters of , and his father was a man of , 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 to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord thy father. Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants: And we will cut wood out of , as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in flotes by sea to ; and thou shall carry it up to . And numbered all the strangers that were in the land of , after the numbering wherewith his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. 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.