These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 2
Tanakh 18 verses
- 1 Now purposed to build a house for the of , and a house for his .
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And counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
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And sent to Huram the of , saying: ‘As thou didst deal with my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein [, even so deal with me].
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- 4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the of my , to dedicate it to Him, and to burn before Him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the appointed seasons of our . This is an for ever to .
- 5 And the house which I build is great; for great is our above all Elohims.
- 6 But who is able to build Him a house, seeing the and the of cannot contain Him? who am I then, that I should build Him a house, only to offer before Him?
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Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that hath skill to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in and in , whom my father did provide.
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Send me also cedar-trees, cypress-trees, and sandal-wood, out of Lebanon; for I that thy servants have skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
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even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
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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.’
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Then Huram the of answered in writing, which he sent to : ‘Because loveth His people, He hath made thee over them.’
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Huram said moreover: ‘Blessed be , the of , that made and earth, who hath given to the a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for , and a house for his .
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And now I have sent a skilful man, endued with understanding, even Huram my master craftsman,
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the son of a woman of the daughters of , and his father was a man of , 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 devise any device; to do whatever may be set before him, with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord thy father.
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Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants;
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and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to .’
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And numbered all the strangers that were in the land of , after the numbering wherewith his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
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