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Solomon's Sacrifice at Gibeon and Prayer for Wisdom Solomon Secures Materials and Craftsmen for the Temple The Temple: Foundation and Structure Temple Furnishings and Completion of the Work The Ark Installed and Solomon's Dedication Prayer Solomon's Prayer of Dedication and God's Assurance The Lord Fills the Temple and the Dedication Festival God Appears to Solomon and Gives a Conditional Promise Solomon's Other Buildings and Relations with Hiram The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon Solomon's Wealth, Trade, and Administration Summary of Solomon's Reign and Death Rehoboam's Folly and the Division of the Kingdom Rehoboam Fortifies Judah and Consolidates Support Rehoboam's Descendants and Death Shishak's Invasion and Judah's Loss Abijah's Victory over Israel and His Death Asa's Reforms and Victory over Ethiopia Asa Strengthened by Prophecy and Covenant Renewal Asa's Alliance with Aram and Reproof by Hanani Jehoshaphat Strengthens Judah and Reforms Justice Jehoshaphat's Alliance with Ahab and the Battle at Ramoth-gilead Jehu Rebukes Jehoshaphat for the Alliance with Ahab Judicial Reforms: Judges Appointed to Administer Justice Jehoshaphat's Deliverance through Prayer and Praise End of Jehoshaphat's Reign and Jehoram's Accession Jehoram's Wicked Reign, Revolts, and Judgment Ahaziah Succeeds His Father and Is Wounded Athaliah's Usurpation Overthrown and Joash Crowned Joash's Temple Restoration under Jehoiada Joash's Apostasy, Punishment, and Assassination Amaziah's Reign: Victory, Pride, and Defeat by Israel Uzziah's Prosperity and Pride; Leprosy for Presumption Jotham's Reign: Fortifications and Prosperity Ahaz's Idolatry, Defeats, and Assyrian Subjugation Hezekiah's Temple Restoration and Religious Reforms Hezekiah's Passover and National Repentance Hezekiah's Religious Administration and Temple Support Hezekiah's Defense Against Sennacherib and Divine Deliverance Hezekiah's Illness, Pride, and the Babylonian Envoys Manasseh's Idolatry, Captivity, Repentance, and Restoration Amon's Wicked Reign and Assassination Josiah's Early Reforms and Temple Repair The Book of the Law Found, Huldah's Prophecy, and Josiah's Covenant Josiah's Observance of the Passover Josiah Killed at Megiddo and National Mourning Jehoahaz Reigns Briefly and Is Deposed by Pharaoh Jehoiakim's Reign and Disobedience Jehoiachin's Short Reign and Exile to Babylon Zedekiah's Reign and Rejection of Prophetic Warnings Judgment, Exile, and the Decree of Cyrus

Solomon Secures Materials and Craftsmen for the Temple

2 Chronicles 2:1-18

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Chapter 2
1 Solomon said to build a house for the name of the LORD and a house for his kingdom. 2 And Solomon counted seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountain and three thousand six hundred overseers over them. 3 And Solomon sent to Hiram king of Tyre, saying, "Just as you did with David my father and sent him cedars to build him a house to dwell in." 4 Behold, I am building a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn incense of spices before him and for the continual arrangement and burnt offerings morning and evening, for the sabbaths, new moons, and appointed times of the LORD our God forever. This is for Israel. 5 The house that I am building is great, for our God is greater than all gods. 6 But who is able to build him a house, for the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain him? And who am I that I should build him a house except to burn incense before him? 7 Now send me a wise man to work in gold and silver and bronze and iron and purple and crimson and blue, and knowing how to engrave engravings, with the wise men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared. 8 Now send cedars, firs, and junipers to me from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut trees in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants. 9 And prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house which I am building is great and wonderful. 10 Now, for the cutters, for the hewers of the trees, I have given wheat for your servants: twenty thousand cors, and twenty thousand cors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. 11 And Huram king of Tyre said in writing and sent to Solomon: "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel who made the heavens and the earth, who gave to David the king a wise son knowing discernment and understanding, who will build a house for the LORD and a house for his kingdom." 12 And Huram said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who gave to David the king a wise son, endowed with discernment, to build a house for the LORD and a house for his kingdom." 13 And now I have sent a wise man, one knowing understanding, to Huram my father. 14 The son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre, knowing how to work in gold and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stones, and in woods, in purple, in blue, and in scarlet and in crimson, to open every opening and to devise every devising that is given to him, with your wise men and the wise men of my lord David your father. 15 And now the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has ordered his servants to send. 16 And we will cut trees from Lebanon as much as you need, and we will bring them to you as rafts on the Sea of Joppa, and you will bring them up to Jerusalem. 17 And Solomon counted all the sojourners who were in the land of Israel after the census that his father David had counted of them, and they were found to be 150,000 and 3,600. 18 He set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens, eighty thousand to cut stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred as overseers to make the people work.