2:1 ①Now Solomon ②decided to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a ③royal palace for himself.
▷ ①Ch 1:18 in Heb ②Lit said ③Lit house for his royalty
2:2 ①So Solomon ②assigned seventy thousand men to carry loads, eighty thousand men to quarry stone in the mountains, and 3,600 to supervise them.
▷ ①Ch 2:1 in Heb ②Lit counted
2:3 Then Solomon sent word to ①Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with my father David and sent him cedars to build him a house to live in, do it for me.
▷ ①In 1 Kin 5:18, Hiram
2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, dedicating it to Him, to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on Sabbaths, on new moons, and on the appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is to be done in Israel forever.
2:5 The house which I am about to build will be great, for our God is greater than all the gods.
2:6 But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? And who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to ①burn incense before Him?
▷ ①Lit offer up in smoke
2:7 Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass, iron, and in purple, crimson, and violet fabrics, one who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled workers ①whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
▷ ①Lit who are with me
2:8 Send me also cedar, juniper, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and indeed my servants will work with your servants,
2:9 to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
2:10 Now behold, I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, ①twenty thousand kors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, ②twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
▷ ①About 154,000 cubic feet or 4,360 cubic meters ②About 120,000 gallons or 454,249 liters
2:11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, ①answered in a letter sent to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them.”
▷ ①Lit said...and he sent
2:12 Then Huram ①continued, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, ②endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a house for the LORD and a ③royal palace for himself.
▷ ①Lit said ②Lit knowing discretion ③Lit house for his royalty
2:13 “Now then, I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, ①endowed with understanding,
▷ ①Lit knowing understanding
2:14 the son of a ①Danite woman and ②a 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 ③execute any design which is assigned to him, to work with your skilled workers and with ④those of my lord, your father David.
▷ ①Lit a woman of the daughters of Dan ②Lit whose father is a Tyrian man ③Lit devise any device ④Lit skilled men
2:15 Now then, let my lord send his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken.
2:16 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.”
2:17 Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, following the ①census which his father David had ②taken; and 153,600 were found.
▷ ①Lit numbering ②Lit numbered of them
2:18 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.