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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

历代志下 2:10

至於你的僕人,就是砍伐樹木的人,我必給他們食物,就是小麥二萬公噸、大麥二萬公噸、酒四十萬公升、油四十萬公升。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barley;   Cor;   Hiram;   Measure;   Servant;   Tyre;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Barley;   Grain;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Mountains;   Temple, the First;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Crimson;   Hiram or Huram;   Olive;   Vinegar;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cor;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Oil;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Bath;   Hew;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Ships and Boats;   Solomon;   Trade and Commerce;   Tyre;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hiram ;   Oil;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Corn;   Measures;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Corn;   Olive;   Weights and Measures;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bath;   Galilee;   Hewer;   Measure;   Oil;   Solomon;   Trade;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Barley;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hewers of Wood;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 的 仆 人 砍 伐 树 木 , 我 必 给 他 们 打 好 了 的 小 麦 二 万 歌 珥 , 大 麦 二 万 歌 珥 , 酒 二 万 罢 特 , 油 二 万 罢 特 。

Contextual Overview

1 Solomon decided to build a temple as a place to worship the Lord and also a palace for himself. 2 He chose seventy thousand men to carry loads, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the hill country, and thirty-six hundred men to direct the workers. 3 Solomon sent this message to Hiram king of the city of Tyre: "Help me as you helped my father David by sending him cedar logs so he could build himself a palace to live in. 4 I will build a temple for worshiping the Lord my God, and I will give this temple to him. There we will burn sweet-smelling spices in his presence. We will continually set out the holy bread in God's presence. And we will burn sacrifices every morning and evening, on Sabbath days and New Moons, and on the other feast days commanded by the Lord our God. This is a rule for Israel to obey forever. 5 "The temple I build will be great, because our God is greater than all gods. 6 But no one can really build a house for our God. Not even the highest of heavens can hold him. How then can I build a temple for him except as a place to burn sacrifices to him? 7 "Now send me a man skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, red, and blue thread. He must also know how to make engravings. He will work with my skilled craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David chose. 8 "Also send me cedar, pine, and juniper logs from Lebanon. I know your servants are experienced at cutting down the trees in Lebanon, and my servants will help them. 9 Send me a lot of wood, because the temple I am going to build will be large and wonderful. 10 I will give your servants who cut the wood one hundred twenty-five thousand bushels of wheat, one hundred twenty-five thousand bushels of barley, one hundred fifteen thousand gallons of wine, and one hundred fifteen thousand gallons of oil."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will give: 1 Kings 5:11, Luke 10:7, Romans 13:7, Romans 13:8

baths of wine: 1 Kings 7:26, 1 Kings 7:38, Ezra 7:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:28 - plenty Deuteronomy 8:8 - barley 1 Kings 5:6 - cedar trees 2 Chronicles 2:15 - which my lord 2 Chronicles 34:13 - the bearers Ezra 3:7 - meat Ezekiel 27:17 - wheat Acts 12:20 - because

Cross-References

Psalms 46:4
There is a river that brings joy to the city of God, the holy place where God Most High lives.
Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life. It was shining like crystal and was flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,.... Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half broke for pottage, as others; but ground into flour, as R. Jonah d interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered "food" e that is, for his household, as in 1 Kings 5:11, and the hire of these servants is proposed to be given in this way, because wheat was scarce with the Tyrians, and they were obliged to have it from the Jews, Acts 12:20,

and twenty thousand measures of barley; the measures of both these were the cor, of which see 1 Kings 5:11,

and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil; which measure was the tenth part of a "cor". According to the Ethiopians, a man might consume four of these measures in the space of a month f.

d Apud Kimchium in loc. e So Kimchi, מכת "pro" מכלת "ineuria librariorum", Schindler, Lex. Pentaglott. col. 73. f Ludolf. Lexic. Ethiop. p. 197.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Beaten wheat - The Hebrew text is probably corrupt here. The true original may be restored from marginal reference, where the wheat is said to have been given “for food.”

The barley and the wine are omitted in Kings. The author of Chronicles probably filled out the statement which the writer of Kings has given in brief; the barley, wine, and ordinary oil, would be applied to the sustenance of the foreign laborers.


 
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