Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.
New American Standard Bible
to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
King James Version
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
Holman Bible
to prepare logs for me in abundance because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
International Standard Version
to prepare an abundant amount of timber for me, because the Temple that I'm building is to be great and awesome.
A Conservative Version
even to prepare for me timber in abundance. For the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
American Standard Version
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
Amplified
to prepare for me an abundance of timber, because the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
Darby Translation
even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house that I build shall be great and wonderful.
Julia Smith Translation
And to prepare for me woods for multitude: for the house that I build is great and wonderful.
King James 2000
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderfully great.
Lexham Expanded Bible
to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building [will be] great and wonderful.
Modern King James verseion
in order to prepare plenty of timber for me. For the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that they may prepare me timber enough. For the house which I build is great and wonderful.
NET Bible
to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.
New Heart English Bible
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
The Emphasized Bible
yea to prepare me timbers in abundance, - for, the house which I am about to build, must be great and most wonderful.
Webster
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderfully great.
World English Bible
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
Youngs Literal Translation
even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building is great and wonderful.
Themes
Hiram » Called huram, king of tyre » Helps solomon in building the temple
Mountains » Abounded with » Forests
The First Temple » Solomon » Contracted with hiram for wood, stone, and labor
The First Temple » Its magnificence
Tyre » Supplied » Stones and timber for building the temple, &c
Interlinear
Kuwn
Bayith
Banah
Pala'
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon Petitions The King Of Tyre
8 And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours, 9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder. 10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:8
And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
2 Chronicles 2:5
And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?