Verse 1
2 Chronicles 2:1
Darby Translation
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And Solomon purposed 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 purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
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And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the m...
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And Solomon sent to Huram king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst s...
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Behold, I build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God (Elohim) to dedicate it to him, to burn befo...
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And the house that I will build is great; for great is our God (Elohim) above all gods.
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But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain hi...
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And now send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in pur...
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Send me also cedar-trees, cypress-trees, and sandal-wood trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy...
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even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house that I build shall be great and wonderful.
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And behold, I will give to thy servants the hewers that fell timber, twenty thousand measures of bea...
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And Huram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loved his peop...
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And Huram said, Blessed be Jehovah the God (Elohim) of Israel, that made the heavens and the earth,...
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And now, I send a skilful man, endued with understanding, Huram Abi,
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the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and whose father was a man of Tyre, experienced in worki...
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And now the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send u...
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And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee [in] f...
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And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the account that David...
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And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons...
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