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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Chronicles 2 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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Who am I to build a house for Him, except [as a place] to burn <i>incense</i> before Him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now send me a man who is skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue <i>fabrics,</i> and who knows how to make engravings, <i>to work</i> with the skilled men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Send me also cedar, cypress, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>algum timber, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And indeed my servants <i>will work</i> with your servants <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>to prepare for me an abundance of timber, because the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I will give to your servants who cut timber, 20,000 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>measures of crushed wheat and 20,000 measures of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of [olive] oil.” <p class="hdg">Hiram to Assist</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Now I am sending a skilled man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>the son of a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>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. <i>He will work</i> with your skilled men and those of my lord, David your father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now then, let my lord send to his servants the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine of which he has spoken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Ch 1:18 in Hebrew.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Ch 2:1 in Hebrew.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Heb <i>Huram</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>almug</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>kors,</i> about 10 bu.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> 1 Kin 7:14 says that this woman was of the tribe of Naphtali. 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