Verse 18
2 Chronicles 2:18
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.
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Chapter 2 Context
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And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of the Lord, and a palace for himself.
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And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the m...
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He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with David my father, and didst send him c...
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So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my God (Elohim), to dedicate it to bu...
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For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God (Elohim) is great above all gods.
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Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot conta...
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Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in i...
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Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus: for I know that thy servants are sk...
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To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding great,...
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And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the trees, for their food twenty thous...
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And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because the Lord hath loved his people, the...
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And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God (Elohim) of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who...
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I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and most skilful man,
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The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who knoweth how to work in go...
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The wheat therefore, and the barley and the oil, and the wine, which thou, my lord, hast promised, s...
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And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as thou shalt want, and will convey them in float...
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And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his f...
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And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew...