14:002:005 And the house which I build is great:
for great is our God
above
all gods.
14:002:006 But who is able to build him an house,
seeing the heaven and
heaven
of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that
I
should
build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before
him?
14:002:007 Send me now therefore a man cunning to
work in gold, and in
silver,
and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson,
and
blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning
men
that
are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my
father
did provide.
14:002:008 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and
algum trees, out of
Lebanon:
for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber
in
Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy
servants,
14:002:009 Even to prepare me timber in abundance:
for the house which I
am
about to build shall be wonderful great.
14:002:010 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.
14:002:011 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in
writing, which he sent
to
Solomon, Because the lord hath loved his people,
he hath
made
thee king over them.
14:002:012 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the lord
God of Israel, that
made
heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king
a wise
son,
endued with prudence and understanding, that might
build
an
house for the lord, and an house for his kingdom.
14:002:013 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued
with understanding,
of
Huram my father’s,
14:002:014 The son of a woman of the daughters of
Dan, and his father was
a
man of Tyre, 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 find out every device which shall be put to
him,
with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my
lord
David
thy father.
14:002:015 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley,
the oil, and the
wine,
which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his
servants:
14:002:016 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 Jerusalem.
14:002:017 And Solomon numbered all the strangers
that were in the land
of
Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father
had
numbered
them; and they were found an hundred and fifty
thousand
and three thousand and six hundred.


