Verse 8
2 Chronicles 2:8
King James Version
8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants
shall be with thy servants,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/לְ/הָכִ֥ין לִ֛/י עֵצִ֖ים לָ/רֹ֑ב כִּ֥י הַ/בַּ֛יִת אֲשֶׁר אֲנִ֥י בוֹנֶ֖ה גָּד֥וֹל וְ/הַפְלֵֽא
English Translation
And to prepare for me abundant wood, for the house that I am building is great and wonderful.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
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2
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew...
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3
And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and did...
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4
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God (Elohim), to dedicate
it to him,
and to burn...
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5
And the house which I build
is great: for great
is
our God (Elohim) above all gods.
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6
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? w...
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7
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and i...
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8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants c...
9
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build
shall be wonderful g...
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10
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of be...
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11
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath lov...
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12
Huram said moreover, Blessed
be the LORD God (Elohim) of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hat...
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13
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
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14
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father
was
a man of Tyre, skilful to work in go...
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15
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let hi...
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16
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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17
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that
were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewit...
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18
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them
to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand
to b...
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