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The house that I will build for our God will be a great temple, because he is greater than all gods. I know that nobody can really build a house for our God. The whole sky, or even heaven itself, is not big enough to contain him. So I certainly cannot build a place for him to live in, but it will be a place where we can offer sacrifices to him.

Please send me a man who has special skills to work with gold, silver, bronze and iron, as well as with valuable red, purple and blue materials. He must also know how to cut pictures on metal. He will help my own workers here in Judah[a] and in Jerusalem. They are workers with special skills that my father David chose to do this work.

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  1. 2:7 Judah was the most important Israelite tribe.