Verse 6
2 Chronicles 2:6
American Standard Version
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But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּ֡ה שְֽׁלַֽח לִ֣/י אִישׁ חָכָ֡ם לַ/עֲשׂוֹת֩ בַּ/זָּהָ֨ב וּ/בַ/כֶּ֜סֶף וּ/בַ/נְּחֹ֣שֶׁת וּ/בַ/בַּרְזֶ֗ל וּ/בָֽ/אַרְגְּוָן֙ וְ/כַרְמִ֣יל וּ/תְכֵ֔לֶת וְ/יֹדֵ֖עַ לְ/פַתֵּ֣חַ פִּתּוּחִ֑ים עִם הַֽ/חֲכָמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר עִמִּ/י֙ בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֣ה וּ/בִֽ/ירוּשָׁלִַ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֵכִ֖ין דָּוִ֥יד אָבִֽ/י
English Translation
And now send me a wise man to work with gold and silver and bronze and iron and purple and crimson and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings with the wise men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared.
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Chapter 2 Context
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Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
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And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men...
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And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and did...
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Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God (Elohim), to dedicate it to him,...
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And the house which I 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 heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? wh...
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Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and i...
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Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants k...
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even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and w...
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And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of be...
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Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loveth hi...
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Huram said moreover, Blessed be Jehovah, the God (Elohim) of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who...
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And now I have sent a skilful man, endued 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, skilful to work in gol...
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Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him...
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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 flo...
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And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewi...
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And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hew...
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