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16 And there were horses brought him from blue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the
Egypt, and from Coa by the king’s merchants, artificers, which I have with me in Judea and
who went, and bought at a price, Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
17 A chariot of four horses for six hundred 8 Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine
pieces of silver, and a horse for a hundred and trees from Libanus: for I know that thy servants
fifty: in like manner market was made in all the are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus, and my
kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of servants shall be with thy servants,
Syria. 9 To provide me timber in abundance. For the
house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding
great, and glorious.
Chapter 2 10 And I will give thy servants the workmen
that are to cut down the trees, for their food
And Solomon determined to build a house to the twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many
name of the Lord, and a palace for himself. cores of barley, and twenty thousand measures
2 And he numbered out seventy thousand men of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.
to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew 11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to
stones in the mountains, and three thousand six Solomon, saying: Because the Lord hath loved
hundred to oversee them. his people, therefore he hath made thee king over
3 He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: them.
As thou didst with David my father, and didst 12 And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord
send him cedars, to build him a house, in which the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth,
he dwelt: who hath given to king David a wise and know-
4 So do with me that I may build a house to ing son, endued with understanding and pru-
the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to dence, to build a house to the Lord, and a palace
burn incense before him, and to perfume with for himself.
aromatical spices, and for the continual setting 13 I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram,
forth of bread, and for the holocausts, morning a wise and most skilful man,
and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on the 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of
new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who knoweth
God for ever, which are commanded for Israel. how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and
5 For the house which I desire to build, is in iron, and in marble, and in timber, in pur-
great: for our God is great above all gods. ple also, and violet, and silk and scarlet: and
6 Who then can be able to build him a worthy who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and
house? if heaven, and the heavens of heavens to devise ingeniously all that there may be need
cannot contain him: who am I that I should be of in the work with thy artificers, and with the
able to build him a house? but to this end only, artificers of my lord David thy father.
that incense may be burnt before him. 15 The wheat therefore, and the barley and
7 Send me therefore a skilful man, that the oil, and the wine, which thou, my lord, hast
knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in promised, send to thy servants.
brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in 16 And we will cut down as many trees out