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JULY 3
and blue, who has skill to engrave with
the skillful men who are with me in
Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my
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1:17 six hundred shekels. Assuming a shekel father provided. Also send me cedar and
weighs .4 ounces,this represents 15 pounds of cypress and algum logs from Lebanon,
silver for one chariot. one hundred and fifty. for I know that your servants have skill
Assuming the weight is in shekels,this would be to cut timber in Lebanon; and indeed my
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about 3.75 pounds of silver.Deuteronomy 17:16 servants will be with your servants, to
warned against the king’s amassing horses. prepare timber for me in abundance, for
the temple which I am about to build
shall be great and wonderful.
acquired and imported from Egypt a chariot 10
for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse And indeed I will give to your servants,
for one hundred and fifty; thus, through their the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty
agents, they exported them to all the kings of thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty
the Hittites and the kings of Syria. thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand
Then Solomon determined to build a tem- baths of wine, and twenty thousand
2 ple for the name of the LORD, and a royal baths of oil.
house for himself. Solomon selected seventy 11 Then Hiram king of Tyre answered in writ-
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thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thou- ing, which he sent to Solomon:
sand to quarry stone in the mountains, and
three thousand six hundred to oversee them. Because the LORD loves His people, He
has made you king over them.
12 Hiram also said:
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who
2:1 temple for the name of the LORD. God’s made heaven and earth, for He has
covenant name,Yahweh or Jehovah (Ex. 3:14), given King David a wise son, endowed
is in mind. David wanted to do this, but was with prudence and understanding, who
not allowed to do any more than plan and will build a temple for the LORD and a
prepare (1 Chr.23–26; 28:11–13), purchase the royal house for himself!
land (2 Sam. 24:18–25; 1 Chr. 22), and gather
13 And now I have sent a skillful man,
the materials (1 Chr. 22:14–16).
endowed with understanding, Huram my
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master craftsman (the son of a woman of
3 Then Solomon sent to Hiram king of Tyre, the daughters of Dan, and his father was a
saying: man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and
silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood,
As you have dealt with David my father, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson,
and sent him cedars to build himself a and to make any engraving and to
house to dwell in, so deal with me. accomplish any plan which may be given
4 Behold, I am building a temple for the to him, with your skillful men and with the
name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it skillful men of my lord David your father.
to Him, to burn before Him sweet 15
incense, for the continual showbread, for Now therefore, the wheat, the barley,
the burnt offerings morning and evening, the oil, and the wine which my lord has
on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and spoken of, let him send to his servants.
16 And we will cut wood from Lebanon,
on the set feasts of the LORD our God.
This is an ordinance forever to Israel. as much as you need; we will bring it to
you in rafts by sea to Joppa, and you
5 And the temple which I build will be will carry it up to Jerusalem.
great, for our God is greater than all
17 Then Solomon numbered all the aliens
gods. But who is able to build Him a
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temple, since heaven and the heaven of who were in the land of Israel, after the census
heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I in which David his father had numbered them;
then, that I should build Him a temple, and there were found to be one hundred and
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except to burn sacrifice before Him? fifty-three thousand six hundred. And he
made seventy thousand of them bearers of
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Therefore send me at once a man burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the
skillful to work in gold and silver, in mountain, and three thousand six hundred
bronze and iron, in purple and crimson overseers to make the people work.
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