II Chronicles Chapter 2

II Chronicles Chapter 2
1 Then Solomon determined to build an
house for the name of the Lord, and an
house for his kingdom.
2 And Solomon told out seventy
thousand that bear burdens, and
fourscore thousand men to hew stones in
the mountain, and three thousand and six
hundred to oversee them.
3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king
of Tyrus, saying, As thou hast done to
David my father, and didst send him
cedar trees to build him an house to
dwell in, so do to me.
4 Behold, I build an house unto the name
of the Lord my God, to sanctify it unto
him, and to burn sweet incense before
him, and for the continual showbread,
and for the burnt offerings of the morning
and evening, on the Sabbath days, and in
the new months, and in the solemn feasts
of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual
thing for Israel.
5 And the house which I build, is great:
for great is our God above all gods. 6
Who is he then that can be able to build
him an house, when the heaven, and the
heaven of heavens cannot contain him?
Who am I then that I should build him an
house? But I do it to burn incense before
him. 7 Send me now therefore a cunning
man that can work in gold, in silver, and
in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and
crimson and blue silk, and that can grave
in graven work with the cunning men that
are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem,
whom David my father hath prepared.
8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees and
Algummim trees from Lebanon: for I
know that thy servants can skill to hew
timber in Lebanon: and behold, my
servants shall be with thine,
9 That they may prepare me timber in
abundance: for the house which I do
build , is great and wonderful.
10 And behold, I will give to thy
servants the cutters and the hewers of
timber twenty thousand measures of
beaten wheat, and twenty thousand
measures of barley, and twenty thousand
baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths
of oil.
11 Then Huram king of Tyrus answered
in writing which he sent to Solomon,
Because the Lord hath loved his people,
he hath made thee king over them. 12
Huram said moreover, Blessed be the
Lord God of Israel, which made the
heaven and the earth, and that hath given
unto David the king a wise son, that hath
discretion, prudence and understanding
to build an house for the Lord, and a
palace for his kingdom.
13 Now therefore I have sent a wise
man, and of understanding of my father
Huram's,
14 The son of a woman of the daughters
of Dan: and his father was a man of
Tyrus, and he can skill to work in gold,
in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and
in timber, in purple, in blue silk, and in
fine linen, and in crimson, and can grave
in all graven works, and broider in all
broidered work that shall be given him,
with thy cunning men, and with the
cunning men of my lord David thy father.
15 Now therefore the wheat and the
barley, the oil and the wine, which my
lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his
servants.
16 And we will cut wood in Lebanon as
much as thou shalt need, and will bring it
to thee in rafts by the sea to Joppa, so
thou mayest carry them to Jerusalem.
17 And Solomon numbered all the
strangers that were in the land of Israel,
after the numbering that his father David
had numbered them: and they were found
an hundred and three and fifty thousand,
and six hundred. 18 And he set seventy
thousand of them to the burden, and
fourscore thousand to hew stones in the
mountain, and three thousand and six
hundred overseers to cause the people to
work.