Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
2 Chronicles 2:9
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to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
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Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great.
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even to prepare timber in abundance for me; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
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even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
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2 Chronicles 2
7 Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
8 Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours
9 to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
10 I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
11 Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”
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