Verse 1
2 Chronicles 2:1
Geneva Bible
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Then Salomon determined to builde an house for the Name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome.
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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Then Salomon determined to builde an house for the Name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome.
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And Salomon tolde out seuentie thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousande men to hewe ston...
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And Salomon sent to Huram the king of Tyrus, saying, As thou hast done to Dauid my father, and didst...
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Behold, I buylde an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God (Elohim), to sanctifie it vnto him, and t...
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And the house which I buylde, is great: for great is our God (Elohim) aboue all gods.
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Who is he then that can be able to buylde him an house, when the heauen, and the heauen of heauens c...
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Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man that can worke in golde, in siluer, and in brasse, and in yron...
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Sende mee also cedar trees, firre trees and Algummim trees from Lebanon: for I knowe that thy seruan...
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That they may prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderf...
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And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the cutters and the hewers of timber twentie thousand measur...
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Then Huram King of Tyrus answered in writing which he sent to Salomon, Because the Lord hath loued h...
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Huram sayd moreouer, Blessed be the Lord God (Elohim) of Israel, which made the heauen and the earth...
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Now therefore I haue sent a wise man, and of vnderstanding of my father Hurams,
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The sonne of a woman of the daughters of Dan: and his father was a man of Tyrus, and he can skill to...
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Now therefore the wheate and the barley, the oyle and the wine, which my lorde hath spoken of, let h...
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And we wil cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou shalt neede, and will bring it to thee in raftes by t...
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And Salomon nombred al the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the nombring that his fa...
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And he set seuentie thousande of them to the burden, and fourescore thousande to hewe stones in the...
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