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2 Chronicles 2:11-18
New International Version
2 Chronicles 2:11-18
New International Version
11 Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon:
“Because the Lord loves(A) his people, he has made you their king.”
12 And Hiram added:
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth!(B) 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,(C) a man of great skill, 14 whose mother was from Dan(D) and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained(E) to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue(F) 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(G) and wine he promised, 16 and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa.(H) You can then take them up to Jerusalem.”
17 Solomon took a census of all the foreigners(I) residing in Israel, after the census(J) his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. 18 He assigned(K) 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.
2 Chronicles 2:11-18
New King James Version
2 Chronicles 2:11-18
New King James Version
11 Then Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon:
(A)Because the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them.
12 [a]Hiram also said:
(B)Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, (C)who made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal house for himself!
13 And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, [b]Huram my [c]master craftsman 14 (D)(the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
15 Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which (E)my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants. 16 (F)And we will cut wood from Lebanon, as much as you need; we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to [d]Joppa, and you will carry it up to Jerusalem.
17 (G)Then Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census in which (H)David his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred. 18 And he made (I)seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
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- 2 Chronicles 2:12 Heb. Huram; cf. 1 Kin. 5:1
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 Hiram, 1 Kin. 7:13
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 Lit. father, 1 Kin. 7:13, 14
- 2 Chronicles 2:16 Heb. Japho
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