2 Chronicles 2:1-10

Solomon Will Build a Temple and Palace

1 ¹Now Solomon decided to build a house for the name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

2 So ²Solomon assigned 70,000 * men to carry loads and 80,000 * men to quarry stone in the mountains and 3,600 * * to supervise them.

3 ³Then Solomon sent word to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, "⁴As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedars to build him a house to dwell in, so do for me.

4 "Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, dedicating it to Him, ⁵to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out ⁶the showbread continually, and to offer ⁷burnt offerings morning and evening, ⁸on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, this being required forever in Israel.

5 "The house which I am about to build will be great, for ⁹greater is our God than all the gods.

6 "But ¹⁰who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except * to burn incense before Him?

7 "Now ¹¹send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass and iron, and in purple, crimson and violet fabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled men ¹²whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

8 "¹³Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and indeed ¹⁴my servants will work with your servants,

9 to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

10 "Now behold, ¹⁵I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000 * kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 * kors of barley, and 20,000 * baths of wine and 20,000 * baths of oil."

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2 Chronicles 2:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 2

Solomon intending to build a temple for God, and a palace for himself, sent to Hiram, king of Tyre, to furnish him with materials and workmen, 2Ch 2:1-10, to which Hiram returned an agreeable answer, 2Ch 2:11-16, and for this service Solomon numbered all the strangers in Israel, 2Ch 2:17,18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. 1 Kings 5:5
2. 1 Kings 5:15, 16; 2 Chronicles 2:18
3. 1 Kings 5:2-11
4. 1 Chronicles 14:1
5. Exodus 30:7
6. Exodus 25:30
7. Exodus 29:38-42
8. Numbers 28:9, 10
9. Exodus 15:11; 1 Chronicles 16:25
10. 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18
11. Exodus 31:3-5; 2 Chronicles 2:13, 14
12. 1 Chronicles 22:15
13. 1 Kings 5:6
14. 2 Chronicles 9:10, 11
15. 1 Kings 5:11

Footnotes 10

[a]. Ch 1:18 in Heb
[b]. Lit "said"
[c]. Lit "house for his royalty"
[d]. Ch 2:1 in Heb
[e]. Lit "numbered"
[f]. In 1 Kin 5:18, "Hiram"
[g]. Lit "offer up in smoke"
[h]. Lit "who are with me"
[i]. I.e. One kor equals approx 10 bu
[j]. I.e. One kor equals approx 10 bu