Verse 18
2 Chronicles 2:18
Bible in Basic English
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Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.
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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,...