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3.3 KiB
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58 lines
3.3 KiB
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## Yahweh's House Will Be Great
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###### 1
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Then Solomon decided to build a house for the name of Yahweh and a royal palace for himself.
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###### 2
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So Solomon numbered 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 men to hew _stone_ in the mountains and 3,600 to direct them.
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###### 3
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Then Solomon sent _word_ to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedars to build him a house to live in, _so do for me_.
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###### 4
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Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, setting it apart to Him as holy, to burn fragrant incense before Him and _to set out_ the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God, this _being required_ forever in Israel.
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###### 5
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Now the house which I am about to build _will be_ great, for greater is our God than all the gods.
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###### 6
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But who 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?
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###### 7
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So now, send me a wise man to work in gold, silver, brass, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue _fabrics_, and who knows how to make engravings, to _work_ with the wise men whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared.
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###### 8
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Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and behold, my servants _will work_ with your servants,
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###### 9
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to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to build _will be_ great and wonderful.
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###### 10
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And behold, I 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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## Covenant with Huram King of Tyre
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###### 11
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Then Huram king of Tyre said in a letter sent to Solomon: "Because Yahweh loves His people, He has given you _to be_ king over them."
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###### 12
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Then Huram said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, knowledgeable in insight and understanding, who will build a house for Yahweh and a royal palace for himself.
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###### 13
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"So now, I am sending Huram-abi, a wise man, who is knowledgeable in understanding,
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###### 14
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the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, _and_ in purple, blue, linen, and crimson fabrics, and _who knows how_ to make all kinds of engravings and to devise any design which may be given to him, _to work_ with your wise men and with the wise men of my lord David your father.
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###### 15
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So now, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken.
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###### 16
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And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem."
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###### 17
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Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners who _were_ in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.
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###### 18
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And he made 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 as hewers _of stone_ in the mountains and 3,600 directors to make the people work.
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