2 Chronicles 2:9

to prepare timber for me in abundance: for the house which I am building must be great and glorious.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

In Context

8And send me from Libanus cedar wood, and wood of juniper, and pine; for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber in Libanus: and, behold, your servants shall go with my servants,

10And, behold, I have given freely to your servants that work and cut the wood, corn for food, even twenty thousand measures of wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.

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Cross References

1 Kings 9:8And this house, which is high, shall be so that every one that passes + 9:8 Gr. through it. by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Therefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

2 Chronicles 7:21And as for this lofty house, every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall say, Therefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 2:2-11

Preparations to Build the Temple. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the Lord , and a house for his kingdom. 2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. 3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. 4 Behold, I build a… Read the whole commentary →

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