2 Chronicles 2:8

World English Bible (2000)

"Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,

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  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."
  • 1 Kgs 10:11 : 11 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.
  • 2 Chr 9:10-11 : 10 The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. 11 The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers: and there were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.

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  • 1 Kgs 5:6-10
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    6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

    7 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed is Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people."

    8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

    9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household."

    10 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

  • 2 Chr 2:9-10
    2 verses
    84%

    9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

    10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil."

  • 2 Chr 2:7
    82%

    7 "Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all kinds of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

  • 2 Chr 2:12-16
    5 verses
    82%

    12 Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

    13 Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father's,

    14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

    15 "Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:

    16 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem."

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    79%

    4 and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.

  • 1 Chr 22:14-15
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    77%

    14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.

    15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:

  • 2 Chr 9:10-11
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    77%

    10 The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

    11 The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers: and there were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 2:3
    77%

    3 Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me].

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    76%

    1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

  • Neh 2:8
    75%

    8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into." The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

  • Ezek 27:5
    75%

    5 They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
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    11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

  • 1 Kgs 10:11-12
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    74%

    11 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.

    12 The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
    73%

    27 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    73%

    6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    73%

    2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

  • Ezra 3:7
    71%

    7 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

  • 1 Chr 28:21
    71%

    21 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of the house of God. There shall be with you in all kinds of work every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command."

  • 1 Chr 29:2
    71%

    2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the [things of] gold, and the silver for the [things of] silver, and the brass for the [things of] brass, the iron for the [things of] iron, and wood for the [things of] wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

  • Exod 31:5
    71%

    5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    71%

    11 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2
    71%

    2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

  • 2 Chr 9:27
    71%

    27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
    71%

    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  • 2 Chr 1:15
    70%

    15 The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • Jer 22:7
    70%

    7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Exod 35:33
    70%

    33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.

  • Song 1:17
    70%

    17 The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved

  • 1 Kgs 10:27
    70%

    27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • 2 Chr 8:18
    70%

    18 Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

  • Ps 104:16
    70%

    16 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

  • 1 Kgs 7:11
    70%

    11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

  • Isa 37:24
    70%

    24 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

  • Isa 44:14
    70%

    14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    70%

    2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.

  • Eccl 2:6
    70%

    6 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

  • 2 Kgs 6:4
    70%

    4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

  • 1 Kgs 6:18
    69%

    18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.