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Why not, I have extra time today.
Solomon gave orders to begin construction on the house of worship in honor of God and a palace for himself. Solomon assigned seventy thousand common laborers, eighty thousand to work the quarries in the mountains, and thirty-six hundred foremen to manage the workforce. Then Solomon sent this message to King Hiram of Tyre: āSend me cedar logs, the same kind you sent David my father for building his palace. Iām about to build a house of worship in honor of God, a holy place for burning perfumed incense, for setting out holy bread, for making Whole-Burnt-Offerings at morning and evening worship, and for Sabbath, New Moon, and Holy Day services of worshipāthe acts of worship required of Israel. āThe house I am building has to be the best, for our God is the best, far better than competing gods. But who is capable of building such a structure? Why, the skiesāthe entire cosmos!ācanāt begin to contain him. And me, who am I to think I can build a house adequate for Godāburning incense to him is about all Iām good for! I need your help: Send me a master artisan in gold, silver, bronze, iron, textiles of purple, crimson, and violet, and who knows the craft of engraving; he will supervise the trained craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem that my father provided. Also send cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon; I know you have lumberjacks experienced in the Lebanon forests. Iāll send workers to join your crews to cut plenty of timberāIām going to need a lot, for this house Iām building is going to be absolutely stunningāa showcase temple! Iāll provide all the food necessary for your crew of lumberjacks and loggers: 130,000 bushels of wheat, 120,000 gallons of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.ā Hiram king of Tyre wrote Solomon in reply: āItās plain that God loves his peopleāhe made you king over them!ā He wrote on, āBlessed be the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, and who gave King David a son so wise, so knowledgeable and shrewd, to build a temple for God and a palace for himself. Iāve sent you Huram-Abiāheās already on his wayāhe knows the construction business inside and out. His mother is from Dan and his father from Tyre. He knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, in purple, violet, linen, and crimson textiles; he is also an expert engraver and competent to work out designs with your artists and architects, and those of my master David, your father. āGo ahead and send the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine you promised for my work crews. Weāll log the trees you need from the Lebanon forests and raft them down to Joppa. Youāll have to get the timber up to Jerusalem yourself.ā Solomon then took a census of all the foreigners living in Israel, using the same census-taking method employed by his father. They numbered 153,600. He assigned 70,000 of them as common laborers, 80,000 to work the quarries in the mountains, and 3,600 as foremen to manage the work crews.
2 Chronicles 2:1ā-ā¬18 MSG
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