Verse 18
2 Chronicles 2:18
Darby Translation
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And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.
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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...