Verse 1
2 Chronicles 2:1
Young's Literal Translation
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And Solomon saith to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom,
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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And Solomon saith to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom,
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and Solomon numbereth seventy thousand men bearing burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mou...
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And Solomon sendeth unto Huram king of Tyre, saying, 'When thou hast dealt with David my father, the...
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lo, I am building a house to the name of Jehovah my God (Elohim), to sanctify [it] to Him, to make p...
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'And the house that I am building [is] great, for greater [is] our God (Elohim) than all gods;
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and who doth retain strength to build to Him a house, for the heavens, even the heavens of the heave...
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'And now, send to me a wise man to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in pu...
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and send to me cedar-trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I have known that thy servants know t...
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even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building [is] great and wonderful...
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'And lo, to hewers, to those cutting the trees, I have given beaten wheat to thy servants, cors twen...
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And Huram king of Tyre saith in writing, and sendeth unto Solomon: 'In the love of Jehovah to His pe...
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And Huram saith, 'Blessed [is] Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth,...
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'And now, I have sent a wise man having understanding, of Huram my father,
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(son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre), knowing to work in gold, and...
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'And, now, the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, as my lord said, let him send to his se...
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and we -- we cut trees out of Lebanon, according to all thy need, and bring them in to thee -- float...
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And Solomon numbereth all the men, the sojourners who [are] in the land of Israel, after the numberi...
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and he maketh of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain, a...
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