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Solomon
Will Build a Temple and Palace |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:1 |
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Now Solomon decided to build a house for the
name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:2 |
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So Solomon assigned 70,000 men to carry loads
and 80,000 men to quarry stone in the mountains and 3,600 to supervise them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:3 |
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Then Solomon sent word to Huram the king of
Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedars to build
him a house to dwell in, so do for me. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:4 |
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Behold, I am about to build a house for the
name of the LORD my God, dedicating it to Him, to burn fragrant incense before
Him and to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning
and evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of the LORD
our God, this being required forever in Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:5 |
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The house which I am about to build will be
great, for greater is our God than all the gods. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:6 |
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But who is able to build a house for Him, for
the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should
build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him? |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:7 |
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Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver,
brass and iron, and in purple, crimson and violet fabrics, and who knows how to
make engravings, to work with the skilled men whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem,
whom David my father provided. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:8 |
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Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber
from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon;
and indeed my servants will work with your servants, |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:9 |
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to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the
house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:10 |
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Now behold, I will give to your servants, the
woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 kors of barley,
and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil." |
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Huram
to Assist |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:11 |
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Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered in a letter
sent to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over
them." |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:12 |
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Then Huram continued, "Blessed be the LORD,
the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise
son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a house for the
LORD and a royal palace for himself. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:13 |
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"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man,
endowed with understanding, |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:14 |
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the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father,
who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple,
violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings
and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled
men and with those of my lord David your father. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:15 |
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Now then, let my lord send to his servants wheat
and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:16 |
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We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon
and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem." |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:17 |
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Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in
the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and
153,600 were found. |
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| 2 Chronicles 2:18 |
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He appointed 70,000 of them to carry loads and
80,000 to quarry stones in the mountains and 3,600 supervisors to make the people
work. |
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