Thematic Bible
2 Chronicles 2:1 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 2:2 (show verse)
2 Chronicles 2:3 (show verse)
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with my father David and sent him cedars to build himself a house in which to live, [please] do the same for me.
2 Chronicles 2:4 (show verse)
Observe, I am about to build a house for the Name of the Lord my God, dedicated to Him, to burn fragrant incense [of sweet spices] before Him, to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on Sabbaths, New Moons, and on the festivals of the Lord our God, as ordained forever in Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:5 (show verse)
The house I am going to build will be great, for our God is greater than all the gods.
2 Chronicles 2:6 (show verse)
But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens and [even] the highest heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I to build a house for Him, except [as a place] to burn incense before Him?
2 Chronicles 2:7 (show verse)
Now send me a man who is skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
2 Chronicles 2:8 (show verse)
Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And indeed my servants will work with your servants
2 Chronicles 2:9 (show verse)
to prepare for me an abundance of timber, because the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
2 Chronicles 2:10 (show verse)
And I will give to your servants who cut timber, 20,000 measures of crushed wheat and 20,000 measures of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of [olive] oil.”
2 Chronicles 2:11 (show verse)
Then Hiram, king of Tyre replied in a letter sent to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them.”
2 Chronicles 2:12 (show verse)
Hiram said also, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who 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.
2 Chronicles 2:13 (show verse)
“Now I am sending a skilled man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,
2 Chronicles 2:14 (show verse)
the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood; in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics, and in fine linen. He is able to make any kind of engraving and to carry out any design given him. He will work with your skilled men and those of my lord, David your father.
2 Chronicles 2:15 (show verse)
Now then, let my lord send to his servants the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine of which he has spoken.
2 Chronicles 2:16 (show verse)
We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 2:17 (show verse)
Then Solomon took a count of all the aliens in the land of Israel, like the census that his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.
2 Chronicles 2:18 (show verse)
He assigned 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stone in the mountain, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.