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2 Chronicles 2:1-3
Evangelical Heritage Version

Preparations for Building the Temple

2 Solomon said that he would build a temple for the Name of the Lord and a palace for his kingdom.[a] 2 He assigned seventy thousand men to transport materials, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the hills, and thirty-six hundred to supervise them.

Solomon’s Letter

3 Solomon sent this message to Huram[b] king of Tyre:

Send me cedar as you did for my father David, when you sent him cedar to build a house for himself to live in.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:1 English chapter 2 starts at Hebrew 1:18. Therefore, in chapter 2 the English verse numbers are all one number higher than the corresponding Hebrew verse numbers.
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:3 Also called Hiram in 1 Kings
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