Verse 1
2 Chronicles 2:1
Bible in Basic English
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Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּסְפֹּ֨ר שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֨לֶף֙ אִ֣ישׁ סַבָּ֔ל וּ/שְׁמוֹנִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ חֹצֵ֣ב בָּ/הָ֑ר וּ/מְנַצְּחִ֣ים עֲלֵי/הֶ֔ם שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים וְ/שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת
English Translation
And Solomon counted seventy thousand men to bear burdens and eighty thousand men who quarried stone in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers over them.
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Chapter 2 Context
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Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as k...
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And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone i...
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And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-t...
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See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God (Elohim), to be made holy to him, where p...
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And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God (Elohim) is greater than all gods.
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But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of h...
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So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, a...
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And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your serv...
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To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.
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And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and t...
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Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his peo...
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And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who ha...
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And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,
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The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold...
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So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;
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And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat...
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Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his fat...
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Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains,...
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