2 Chronicles 2:11-18
New American Standard Bible
Huram to Assist
11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, [a]answered in a letter sent to Solomon: “(A)Because the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them.” 12 Then Huram [b]continued, “Blessed be (B)the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, [c]endowed with discretion and understanding, (C)who will build a house for the Lord and a [d]royal palace for himself.
13 “Now then, I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, [e]endowed with understanding, 14 (D)the son of a [f]Danite woman and [g]a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, violet, linen, and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to [h]execute any design which is assigned to him, to work with your skilled workers and with [i]those of my lord, your father David. 15 Now then, let my lord send his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of (E)which he has spoken. 16 (F)We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you as rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem.”
17 Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, (G)following the [j]census which his father David had [k]taken; and 153,600 were found. 18 (H)He appointed seventy thousand of them to carry loads and eighty thousand to quarry stones in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.
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- 2 Chronicles 2:11 Lit said...and he sent
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 Lit said
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 Lit knowing discretion
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 Lit house for his royalty
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 Lit knowing understanding
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 Lit a woman of the daughters of Dan
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 Lit whose father is a Tyrian man
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 Lit devise any device
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 Lit skilled men
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 Lit numbering
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 Lit numbered of them
2 Chronicles 2:11-18
Lexham English Bible
11 Then Huram[a] king of Tyre answered in a letter, and he sent word to Solomon: “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.” 12 Then Huram[b] said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son knowing discretion and understanding, who will build for Yahweh a house and a royal palace for himself. 13 So now I have sent a skilled man, knowledgeable and with understanding: my master[c] Huram, 14 a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father. 15 Now as for the wheat, barley, oil, and wine that my lord mentioned, let him send that to his servants. 16 And we ourselves will cut trees from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them to you on rafts over the sea to Joppa, so that you may bring them up to Jerusalem.”
17 Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who were in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand. 18 And he appointed from them seventy thousand to bear burdens,[d] eighty thousand to quarry[e] in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
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- 2 Chronicles 2:11 This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram”
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram”
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 Or “my father”
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 Literally “carriers”
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 Literally “stone craftsmen”
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