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Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the LORD gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
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“I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.
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You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as those skilled in every kind of work
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in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the LORD be with you.”
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Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon.