Verse 18
2 Chronicles 2:18
World English Bible, British Edition
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He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who
were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to assign the people
their work.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
Now Solomon decided to build a house for the LORD’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 the LORD my God (Elohim), to dedicate
it to him,...
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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 skilful to work in gold, in silver,
in bronze, 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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9
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 the LORD loves h...
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12
Huram continued, “Blessed be the LORD, the God (Elohim) of Israel, who made heaven
and earth, who ha...
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13
Now I have sent a skilful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,
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14
the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man
of Tyre. He is skilful to work...
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15
“Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine
which my lord has spoken of, let him se...
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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 rafts by sea to...
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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...