1 He put 70,000 men to work transporting materials, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 supervisors in charge of them.
2 Solomon then sent this message to Huram king of Tyre, "Deal with me as you dealt with my father David when you sent him cedars to build a house to live in.
3 I am now building a house to honor Yahweh, my God, to acknowledge his holiness by burning incense of scented spices in his presence, by the loaves that are perpetually set out, by offerings morning and evening, on the sabbath, New Moon, and the solemn festivals of Yahweh our God - and this forever in Israel.
4 The house I am building will be large, for our God is greater than all gods.
5 Yet no one can really build a temple for God because the heavens and the heaven cannot contain him. And I cannot build him a house for anything more than to burn incense in his presence.
6 So send me a man skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, scarlet, crimson, violet, and the art of engraving too; he is to work with the skilled men whom my father David provided here in Judah and Jerusalem.
7 From Lebanon send me cedar wood, juniper and algummim, since I know your servants are experts in felling the trees of Lebanon. My servants will work with yours.
8 They will prepare wood in bulk for me, since the house I wish to build is to be of astounding size.
9 For the woodmen who are to fell the trees I assign twenty thousand kors of grain, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil - this is for the maintenance of your servants."
10 In a letter sent to King Solomon, Huram king of Tyre replied, "Because Yahweh loves his people he has made you king.
11 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made the heavens and the earth, and given King David a wise son, full of understanding and skill, who is going to build a house for Yahweh and a palace for himself and his court.
12 And I am also sending you a skilled craftsman, Huram-abi,
13 the son of a Danite woman by a Tyrian father. He is skilled in the use of gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, wood, scarlet, violet, fine linen, crimson, in engraving of all kinds, and in the execution of any design suggested to him. Let him be put to work with your craftsmen and those of my lord David, your father.
14 So now let my lord send his servants the wheat, barley, oil and wine, as already suggested.
15 For our part, we will cut down all the cedar trees you need from Lebanon, and bring them to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, and you will transport them to Jerusalem."
16 Solomon took a count of all the foreigners living in the land of Israel, following the census that David his father had taken; it was found there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.
17 He impressed seventy thousand of these for carrying loads, eighty thousand for quarrying in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred as overseers to make sure the people worked.
Versículos relacionados com 2 Chronicles, 2:
2 Chronicles 2 describes Solomon's preparation for the construction of the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. He sends a message to the King of Tire, Hiram, asking for help in obtaining Lebanon's cedar and cypress wood, as well as artisans to work in the construction. Hiram agrees to provide materials and workers, and Solomon makes preparations to receive and pay for them. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in 2 chronicles 2:
Isaiah 60:13: "To the glory of my sanctuary I will grow the lane of land" This verse talks about the expansion of earth to the glory of the Lord's sanctuary. The construction of the Temple of Solomon was also made to glorify the Lord and increase the expansion of the earth.
1 Kings 5:6: "My people took upon you the heavy yoke and the cedar wood that I will give you will be a lightness." This verse shows how Solomon was concerned about the welfare of his people. He wanted to build the temple without overwhelming them, so he asked Hiram for help to get cedar wood.
2 Chronicles 3:1: "Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriá, where the Lord had appeared to his father David" this verse describes the beginning of the construction of the Temple of the Lord. Solomon chose Mount Moriá because it was there that the Lord appeared to David.
2 Chronicles 4:1: "He made a bronze altar, twenty cubits, twenty wide and ten high." This verse describes the construction of the bronze altar for the temple. The altar was made for the sacrifices and offerings that would be offered to the Lord.
1 Kings 7:13-14: "He sent him to work in gold, silver and bronze, in cut, in claw stones, and in carpentry, and in all kinds of artistic work. And it was found in his art a great skill in working with gold, silver and bronze. " These verses describe Hiram, the artisan sent by Hiram, king of Tire, to work on the construction of the temple. He had skills in working with gold, silver, bronze and other materials, which would be important for the construction of the Solomon temple.
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