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the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
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And they fetched up, and brought forth
out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred
shekels
of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and
so brought they out
horses
for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
CHAPTER CHRONICLES 2
And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the L
ORD
, and an 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 an house to dwell therein,
even so deal with me.
4
Behold,
I build an house to the name of the L
ORD
my God, to dedicate
it
to him,
and
to burn before him
sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening,
on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the L
ORD
our God. This
is an
ordinance
for ever to Israel.
5
And the house which I build
is
great: for great
is
our God above all
gods.
6
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot
contain him? who
am
I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before
him?
7
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in
iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that
are
with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
8
Send me also cedar
trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber
in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants
shall be
with thy servants,
9
Even to prepare me timber in
abundance: for the house which I am about to build
shall be
wonderful great.
10
And, behold, I will
give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and
twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths
of oil.
11
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the
L
ORD
hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.
12
Huram said moreover, Blessed
be
the L
ORD
God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise
son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the L
ORD
, and an house
for his kingdom.
13
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my
father’s,
14
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father
was
a man of Tyre, skilful
to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in
fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which
shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
15
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let
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