Verse 18
2 Chronicles 2:18
Young's Literal Translation
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and he maketh of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers, to cause the people to work.
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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...