2 Chronicles 2

1Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom.Cross-references: Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:11 · Deut 28:58 · 1Ki 5:5 · 1Ki 7:1 · 1Ki 8:18 · +4 more

2Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.Cross-references: 1Ki 5:15 · 2Chr 2:18

3Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:11 · 1Ki 5:1 · 1Chr 14:1

4Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.Cross-references: Ex 25:30 · Ex 29:38 · Ex 30:7 · Lev 23:1 · Lev 24:5 · Num 28:1 · +3 more

5“The house which I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · 1Ki 9:8 · 1Chr 16:25 · 1Chr 29:1 · 2Chr 2:9 · Ps 86:8 · +5 more

6But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?Cross-references: Ex 3:11 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:11 · Deut 12:14 · Deut 12:26 · 2Sam 7:18 · +8 more

7“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.Cross-references: Ex 31:3 · 1Ki 7:14 · 1Chr 22:15 · 2Chr 2:13 · Isa 28:26 · Isa 28:29 · +1 more

8“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,Cross-references: 1Ki 5:6 · 1Ki 10:11 · 2Chr 9:10

9even to prepare timber in abundance for me; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 2:5 · 2Chr 7:21

10Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”Cross-references: 1Ki 5:11 · 1Ki 7:26 · 1Ki 7:38 · Ezra 7:22 · Luke 10:7 · Rom 13:7

11Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.”Cross-references: Deut 7:7 · 1Ki 10:9 · 2Chr 9:8 · Ps 72:17

12Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for Yahweh and a house for his kingdom.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · 1Ki 5:7 · 1Chr 29:20 · 2Chr 1:10 · 2Chr 2:1 · Ps 33:6 · +14 more

13Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,Cross-references: 2Chr 4:16

14the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device, that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.Cross-references: Ex 31:3 · 1Ki 7:13 · 2Chr 2:7

15“Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;Cross-references: 1Ki 5:11 · 2Chr 2:10

16and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”Cross-references: Josh 19:46 · 1Ki 5:8 · Ezra 3:7 · John 1:3 · Acts 9:36 · Acts 10:32

17Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.Cross-references: 1Ki 5:13 · 1Ki 9:20 · 1Chr 22:2 · 2Chr 2:2 · 2Chr 8:7

18He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.Cross-references: 2Chr 2:2