Verse 1
2 Chronicles 2:1
Literal Standard Version
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And Solomon says to build a house for the Name of YHWH, 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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And Solomon says to build a house for the Name of YHWH, and a house for his kingdom,
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and Solomon numbers seventy thousand men bearing burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mount...
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And Solomon sends to Huram king of Tyre, saying, “When you have dealt with my father David, then you...
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behold, I am building a house for the Name of my God (Elohim) YHWH, to sanctify it to Him, to make i...
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And the house that I am building is great, for our God (Elohim) is greater than all gods;
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and who retains strength to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the heavens of the heaven...
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And now, send a wise man to me to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in pu...
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and send to me cedar-trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I have known that your servants know...
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even to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building is great and wonderful.
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And behold, I have given to your servants, to hewers, to those cutting the trees, twenty thousand co...
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And Huram king of Tyre answers in writing, and sends it to Solomon: “In the love of YHWH for His peo...
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And Huram says, “Blessed is YHWH, God (Elohim) of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who ha...
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And now, I have sent a wise man having understanding, of my father Huram
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(son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre), knowing to work in gold, and...
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And now, the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, as my lord said, let him send to his serv...
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and we cut trees out of Lebanon, according to all your need, and bring them to you—floats by sea, to...
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And Solomon numbers all the men, the sojourners who are in the land of Israel, after the numbering w...
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and he makes from them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain,...
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