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[a]So (A)Solomon numbered 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 men to hew stone in the mountains and 3,600 to direct them.

(B)Then Solomon sent word to [b]Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “(C)As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedars to build him a house to live in, so do for me. Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, setting it apart to Him as holy, (D)to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out (E)the showbread continually, and to offer (F)burnt offerings morning and evening, (G)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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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:2 Ch 2:1 in Heb
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:3 In 1 Kin 5:18, Hiram