Verse 8
2 Chronicles 2:8
World English Bible
8
“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/לְ/הָכִ֥ין לִ֛/י עֵצִ֖ים לָ/רֹ֑ב כִּ֥י הַ/בַּ֛יִת אֲשֶׁר אֲנִ֥י בוֹנֶ֖ה גָּד֥וֹל וְ/הַפְלֵֽא
English Translation
And to prepare for me abundant wood, for the house that I am building is great and wonderful.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom.
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2
Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters...
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3
Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him ced...
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4
Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God (Elohim), to dedicate it to him, t...
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5
“The house which I am building will be great; for our God (Elohim) is greater than all gods.
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6
But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who...
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7
“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, and in purple,...
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8
“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your serva...
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even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wo...
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10
Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten whe...
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11
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his...
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12
Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has...
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13
Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
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the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in go...
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15
“Now therefore the wheat the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send...
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16
and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in floats by sea t...
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17
Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David...
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18
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mount...
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