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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 ESV</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" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 2 Chronicles 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/1.htm" title="2 Chronicles 1">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 2 <a href="../2_chronicles/3.htm" title="2 Chronicles 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_chronicles/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Preparing to Build the Temple</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 1:18 in Hebrew">a</a></sup></span> Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and a royal palace for himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 2:1 in Hebrew">b</a></sup></span> And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, as ordained forever for Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters">c</a></sup></span> of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters">d</a></sup></span> of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, “Because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> loves his people, he has made you king over them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hiram also said, “Blessed be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and a royal palace for himself.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><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">10</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">cor</i> was about 6 bushels or 220 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">bath</i> was about 6 gallons or 22 liters<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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