2 Chronicles 2:12-3:3

New International Version

¹²And Hiram added:

“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth!^(A) He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the Lord and a palace for himself.

¹³“I am sending you Huram-Abi,^(B) a man of great skill, ¹⁴whose mother was from Dan^(C) and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained^(D) to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue^(E) and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.

¹⁵“Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil^(F) and wine he promised, ¹⁶and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa.^(G) You can then take them up to Jerusalem.”

¹⁷Solomon took a census of all the foreigners^(H) residing in Israel, after the census^(I) his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. ¹⁸He assigned^(J) 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.

Solomon Builds the Temple^(K)

3 Then Solomon began to build^(L) the temple of the Lord^(M) in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah^[a]^(N) the Jebusite, the place provided by David. ²He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.^(O)

³The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide^[b]^(P) (using the cubit of the old standard).

Notas al pie

2 Chronicles 3:1 Hebrew Ornan, a variant of Araunah
2 Chronicles 3:3 That is, about 90 feet long and 30 feet wide or about 27 meters long and 9 meters wide