(A)Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

Then Solomon sent to [a]Hiram king of Tyre, saying:

(B)As you have dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me. Behold, (C)I am building a temple for the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to Him, (D)to burn before Him [b]sweet incense, for (E)the continual showbread, for (F)the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the (G)Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the [c]set feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:3 Heb. Huram; cf. 1 Kin. 5:1
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:4 Lit. incense of spices
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:4 appointed

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