Verse 1
2 Chronicles 2:1
GOD'S WORD Translation
1
Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, 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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Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom.
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Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters...
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Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him ced...
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Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God (Elohim), to dedicate it to him, t...
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“The house which I am building will be great; for our God (Elohim) is greater than all gods.
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But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who...
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“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, and in purple,...
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“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your serva...
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even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wo...
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Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten whe...
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Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his...
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Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has...
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Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
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the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in go...
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“Now therefore the wheat the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send...
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and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in floats by sea t...
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Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David...
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He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mount...
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