2 Chronicles 2:9

9 to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building [will be] great and wonderful.

2 Chronicles 2:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:9

Even to prepare me timber in abundance
Since he would want a large quantity for raftering, cieling, wainscoting, and flooring the temple:

for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great;
as to its structure and ornaments.

2 Chronicles 2:9 In-Context

7 So then, send to me skilled men to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue fabric, knowledgeable in engraving, with the skilled men who [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father has established.

8 Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants [are] knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants [will be] with your servants

9 to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building [will be] great and wonderful.

10 Now see, I will provide twenty thousand dry measures of crushed wheat, twenty thousand dry measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil to the woodcarvers and those who cut timber."

11 Then Huram king of Tyre answered in a letter, and he sent [word] to Solomon: "Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them."