Who is he then that can be able to build him an house, when the heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain him? who am I then that I should build him an house? but I do it to burn [a]incense before him.

Send me now therefore a cunning man that can work in gold, in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and in [b]crimson and blue silk, and that can grave in graven work with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father hath prepared.

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees and [c][d]Algummim trees from Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to hew timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with thine,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:6 That is, to do the service which he hath commanded, signifying that none is able to honor and serve God in that perfection as his majesty deserveth.
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:7 Or, scarlet.
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:8 Some take it for Brasil, or the wood called Ebenum, others for coral.
  4. 2 Chronicles 2:8 Or, Almuggim.

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