2 Chronicles 5:1 So all the work Solomon did for Yahveh’s temple was completed. Then Solomon brought the consecrated things of his father David- the silver, the gold, and all the utensils- and put them in the treasuries of God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 5:2 At that time, Solomon collected[1] at Jerusalem the elders of Israel — all the tribal heads, the ancestral chiefs of the Israelites — in order to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahvehup from the city of David, that is, Zion.
2 Chronicles 5:3 So all the men of Israel were assembled in the king’s presence at the festival; this was in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 5:4 All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.
2 Chronicles 5:5 The priests and the Levites brought up the ark, the conference tent, and the sacred utensils that were in the tent.
2 Chronicles 5:6 King Solomon and the entire congregation[2] of Israel who had gathered around him were in the face of the ark sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered because there were so many.
2 Chronicles 5:7 The priests brought the ark of Yahveh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the holiest place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
2 Chronicles 5:8 And the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark so that the cherubim formed a cover above the ark and its poles.
2 Chronicles 5:9 The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the sacred place in the face of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside; they are still there today.
2 Chronicles 5:10 Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had put in it at Horeb, where Yahveh had established a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 5:11 Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless[3] of their divisions. When the priests came out of the sacred place,
2 Chronicles 5:12 the Levitical singers dressed in fine linen and carrying cymbals, harps, and lyres were standing east of the altar, and with them were 120 priests blowing trumpets. The Levitical singers were descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and their sons and relatives.
2 Chronicles 5:13 The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank Yahveh with one voice. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to Yahveh: For he is good; his covenant faithfulness endures permanently. The temple, Yahveh’s temple, was filled with a cloud.
2 Chronicles 5:14 And because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering,[4] because the impressive appearance of Yahveh filled God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 4:1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
2 Chronicles 4:2 He made the cast metal basin, ten cubits from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference.
2 Chronicles 4:3 The likeness of oxen was below it, completely encircling it, ten every ten cubits, surrounding the basin. The oxen were cast in two rows when the basin was cast.
2 Chronicles 4:4 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them, and all their hindquarters were toward the center.
2 Chronicles 4:5 The basin was three inches thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or a lily blossom. It could hold 3,000 baths.
2 Chronicles 4:6 He made ten basins for washing, and he put five on the right and five on the left. The parts of the ascending offerings were rinsed in them, but the priests used the basin for washing.
2 Chronicles 4:7 He made the ten gold lampstands according to their judgment[1] and put them in the sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left.
2 Chronicles 4:8 He made ten tables and placed them in the sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
2 Chronicles 4:9 He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court, and doors for the court. He overlaid the doors with bronze.
2 Chronicles 4:10 He put the basin on the right side, toward the southeast.
2 Chronicles 4:11 Then Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was doing for King Solomon in God’s temple:
2 Chronicles 4:12 two pillars; the bowls and the capitals on top of the two pillars; the two gratings for covering both bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars;
2 Chronicles 4:13 the four hundred pomegranates for the two gratings (two rows of pomegranates for each grating, covering both capitals’ bowls on top of the pillars).
2 Chronicles 4:14 He also made the water carts and the basins on the water carts.
2 Chronicles 4:15 The one basin and the twelve oxen underneath it,
2 Chronicles 4:16 the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils — Huram-abi made them for King Solomon for Yahveh’s temple. All these were made of polished bronze.
2 Chronicles 4:17 The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah.
2 Chronicles 4:18 Solomon made all these utensils in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not determined.
2 Chronicles 4:19 Solomon also made all the equipment in God’s temple: the gold altar; the tables on which to put the Bread of the Presence;
2 Chronicles 4:20 the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn[2] in the face of the inner sanctuary, according to the judgment;
2 Chronicles 4:21 the flowers, lamps, and gold tongs– of purest gold;
2 Chronicles 4:22 the wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles, and firepans — of purest gold; the entryway to the temple, its inner doors to the most sacred place, and the doors of the temple sanctuary — of gold.
2 Chronicles 3:1 Solomon began to build Yahveh’s house in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahveh had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 3:2 He began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 3:3 These are Solomon’s foundations for building God’s house: According to the old standard, the length in cubits was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.
2 Chronicles 3:4 The portico, which was across the face extending across the width of the house, was twenty cubits wide; its height was twenty cubits; he overlaid its inner surface with pure[1] gold.
2 Chronicles 3:5 The larger room he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains.
2 Chronicles 3:6 He adorned the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.
2 Chronicles 3:7 He overlaid the house – the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and doors- with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
2 Chronicles 3:8 Then he made the most sacred[2] place; its length corresponded to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.
2 Chronicles 3:9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.
2 Chronicles 3:10 He made two cherubim of sculptured work inside the most sacred place and overlaid them with gold.
2 Chronicles 3:11 The overall length of the wings of the cherubim was twenty cubits: the wing of one was five cubits, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles 3:12 The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was five cubits, reaching the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles 3:13 The wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet and faced the larger room.
2 Chronicles 3:14 He made the curtain of blue, purple, and crimson yarn, and fine linen, and he wove cherubim into it.
2 Chronicles 3:15 In the face of the temple, he made two pillars, each thirty-five cubits high. The capital on top of each was five cubits high.
2 Chronicles 3:16 He had made chainwork in the inner sanctuary and also put it on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
2 Chronicles 3:17 Then he set up the pillars in face of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named[3] the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.
2 Chronicles 2:1 Solomon decided to build a house[1] for the name of Yahveh and a royal house for himself,
2 Chronicles 2:2 so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.
2 Chronicles 2:3 Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram of Tyre: Do for me what you did for my father David. You sent him cedars to build him a house to live in.
2 Chronicles 2:4 Notice[2] I am building a house for the name of Yahveh, my God, in order to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for displaying the rows of the Bread of the Presence continually,[3] and for sacrificing ascending offerings for the morning and the evening, the Sabbaths and the New Moons, and the appointed festivals of Yahveh our God. This is ordained for Israel permanently.[4]
2 Chronicles 2:5 The house I am building will be great, because our God is greater than any of the gods.
2 Chronicles 2:6 But who is able to build a house for him, since even the sky[5] and the sky of skies cannot contain him? Who am I then that I should build a house for him except as a place to burn incense before him?
2 Chronicles 2:7 Therefore, send me an artisan skilled in engraving to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with the artisans with me in Judah and Jerusalem, appointed by my father, David.
2 Chronicles 2:8 Also, send me cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your slaves know how to cut[6] the trees of Lebanon. Notice that my slaves will be with your slaves
2 Chronicles 2:9 to prepare logs for me in abundance because the house I am building will be great and complicated.[7]
2 Chronicles 2:10 Notice I will give your slaves, the woodcutters who cut the trees, one hundred thousand bushels of wheat flour, one hundred thousand bushels of barley, one hundred ten thousand gallons of wine, and one hundred ten thousand gallons of oil.
2 Chronicles 2:11 King Hiram of Tyre wrote a letter and sent it to Solomon: Because Yahveh cares for[8] his people, he set you over them as king.
2 Chronicles 2:12 Hiram also said, “Praised[9] be Yahveh, God of Israel, who made the sky and the land!” He gave King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who would build a house for Yahveh and a royal house for himself.
2 Chronicles 2:13 I have now sent Huram-abi, a skillful man who has understanding.
2 Chronicles 2:14 He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan. His father is a man of Tyre. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, with purple, blue, crimson yarn, and fine linen. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and execute any design that may be given to him. I have sent him to be with your artisans and the artisans of my lord,[10] your father, David.
2 Chronicles 2:15 Now, let my lord send the wheat, barley, oil, and wine to his slaves as promised.
2 Chronicles 2:16 We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and bring them to you as rafts by sea to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 2:17 Solomon took a census of all the foreign guests[11] in the land of Israel after his father David’s census, and the total was 153,600.
2 Chronicles 2:18 Solomon assigned 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.[12]
2 Chronicles 1:1 Solomon, son of David, strengthened[1] his hold on his kingdom. Yahveh[2] his God was with him and highly exalted him.
2 Chronicles 1:2 Then Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains[3] of thousands and hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader[4] in all Israel – the family heads.
2 Chronicles 1:3 Solomon and the whole congregation[5] with him went to the high place in Gibeon because of God’s conference[6] tent, which Yahveh’s slave[7] Moses had made in the open country,[8] was there.
2 Chronicles 1:4 But[9] David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had set up for it because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles 1:5 but he put the bronze altar, which Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, in the face[10] of Yahveh’s tabernacle. Solomon and the congregation inquired of him there.
2 Chronicles 1:6 Solomon offered sacrifices on the bronze altar at the conference tent in Yahveh’s face, a thousand ascending[11] offerings.
2 Chronicles 1:7 That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him: “Ask. What should I give you?”
2 Chronicles 1:8 And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great covenant faithfulness[12] to my father David, and you have made me king in his place.
2 Chronicles 1:9 Lord God, let your promise to my father David now come true. Because you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the land.[13]
2 Chronicles 1:10 Now grant me wisdom and knowledge so that I may lead these people, for who can judge this great people of yours?”
2 Chronicles 1:11 God said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart, and you have not requested riches, wealth, or an impressive appearance,[14] or for the throat[15] of those who hate you, and you have not even requested long life, but you have asked for yourself wisdom and knowledge that you may judge my people over whom I have made you king,
2 Chronicles 1:12 wisdom and knowledge are given to you. I will also give you riches, wealth, and an impressive appearance, unlike what was given to the kings who were before you or will be given to those after you.”
2 Chronicles 1:13 So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, facing the conference tent, and reigned over Israel.
2 Chronicles 1:14 Solomon gathered[16] 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, placed[17] in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 1:15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.
2 Chronicles 1:16 Solomon’s horses came from Egypt and Kue. The king’s traders would get them from Kue at the going price.
2 Chronicles 1:17 A chariot could be imported from Egypt for fifteen pounds of silver and a horse for nearly four pounds. In the same way, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram through their agents.
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