2 Chronicles 8:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:11-18 : 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;

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  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 2 Chr 8:3-8
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    3And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

    4And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

    5And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

    6And 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.

    7As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel:

    8Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;

  • 1 Kgs 9:10-15
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    10Now 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.

    12But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

    13And 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.

    14And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

    15Now, 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 2:11-12
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    11Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.

    12And 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 9:17-19
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    17... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

    18And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;

    19And 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.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-3
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    1Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

    2And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

    3And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
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    18Solomon'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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:24
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    24At 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.

  • 1 Chr 11:8
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    8And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order.

  • 2 Chr 8:16-17
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    16And 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.

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
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    13Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

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

  • 1 Chr 8:5
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    5And Gera and Shephuphan and Huram.

  • 1 Kgs 11:27
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    27The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1Now 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;

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:7
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    7And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.

  • 1 Chr 22:6
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    6Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 4:11
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    11And Huram made all the pots and the spades and the basins. So he came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of God:

  • 1 Chr 22:2
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    2And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 8:11
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    11Then 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.

  • 2 Chr 11:5
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    5Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

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

  • 2 Sam 5:11
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    11And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
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    2So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
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    11So 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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
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    2But 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.

  • 2 Chr 27:4
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    4In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1
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    1In 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 Chr 1:13
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    13So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 5:12
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    12Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.

  • 1 Kgs 6:10
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    10And 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.