1 Yahweh’s House Will Be Great 2:1Ch1:18in Heb Then Solomon 2:1 Lit said decided to build a house for the name of Yahweh and a 2:1 Lit house for his royalty royal palace for himself.
2 2:2Ch2:1in Heb So Solomon numbered70,000men to carry loads and80,000men to hewstonein the mountains and3,600to direct them.
3 Then Solomon sentwordto 2:3 In 1 Kin 5:18 ,Hiram Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedars to build him a house to live in,so do for me.
4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, setting it apart to Him as holy, to burn fragrant incense before Him andto set outthe showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God, thisbeing requiredforever in Israel.
5 Now the house which I am about to buildwill begreat, for greater is our God than all the gods.
6 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 2:6Lit offer up in smoke burnincensebefore Him?
7 So now, send me a wise man to work in gold, silver, brass, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and bluefabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, toworkwith the wise men 2:7Lit who are with me whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared.
8 Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and behold, my servantswill workwith your servants,
9 to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to buildwill begreat and wonderful.
10 And behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 2:10Approx.130,000bu. or4,600metric tons, a kor was approx.6.5bu. or 230 l20,000kors of crushed wheat and20,000kors of barley, and 2:10Approx.120,000gal. or454,249l, a bath was approx. 6 gal. or 23 l20,000baths of wine and20,000baths of oil.”Covenant with Huram King of Tyre
11 Then Huram king of Tyre said in a letter 2:11 Lit and sent sent to Solomon: “Because Yahweh loves His people, He has given youto beking over them.”
12 Then Huram said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, knowledgeable in insight and understanding, who will build a house for Yahweh and a 2:12 Lit house for his royalty royal palace for himself.
13 “So now, I am sending Huram-abi, a wise man, who is knowledgeable in understanding,
14 the son of a 2:14 Lit a woman of the daughters of Dan Danite woman and 2:14 Lit whose father is a Tyrian man a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood,andin purple, blue, linen, and crimson fabrics, andwho knows howto make all kinds of engravings and to devise any design which may be given to him,to workwith your wise men and with the wise men of my lord David your father.
15 So now, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken.
16 And 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.”
17 Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners whowerein the land of Israel, following the 2:17Lit numbering census which his father David had 2:17Lit numbered of them taken; and153,600were found.
18 And he made70,000of them to carry loads and80,000as hewersof stonein the mountains and3,600directors to make the people work.