2 Chronicles 8:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

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  • 1 Kgs 9:10-28 : 10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house, 11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee. 12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 13 And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day. 14 And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold. 15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ... 16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ... 17 ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower, 18 And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land; 19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule. 20 As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel; 21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day. 22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen. 23 These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work. 24 At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo. 25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord. 26 And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men. 28 And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

  • 2 Chr 8:2
    81%

    2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1
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    1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    80%

    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 2 Chr 8:16-17
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    16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

    17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

  • 2 Chr 7:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14
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    14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

  • 1 Chr 22:5-7
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    5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

    6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

  • 1 Kgs 6:38
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    38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

  • 1 Kgs 8:20-21
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    76%

    20 And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Acts 7:47
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    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:10-12
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    10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

    11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

    12 About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
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    13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 3:1-3
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    1 Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    2 The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

    3 And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17-18
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    17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    18 But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
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    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11 Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

    12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    73%

    25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 2:12
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    12 And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
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    5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

  • 2 Chr 5:1
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    1 So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4
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    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
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    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 2 Chr 9:3
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    3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    72%

    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 6:10
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    10 And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
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    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 1 Kgs 7:51
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    51 So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 28:10-11
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    10 Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

    11 Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

  • 1 Kgs 7:8
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    8 And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

  • 2 Chr 8:6
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    6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 6:16-17
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    16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

    17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

  • 1 Chr 22:10-11
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    10 He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

    11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.