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King James Version (1611 Edition)

2 Chronicles 2:9

Euen to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build, shalbe wonderfull great.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hiram;   Tyre;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Mountains;   Temple, the First;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Crimson;   Hiram or Huram;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Ships and Boats;   Solomon;   Tyre;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hiram ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
to prepare logs for me in abundance because the temple I am building will be great and wondrous.
Hebrew Names Version
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
King James Version
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
English Standard Version
to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.
New Century Version
Send me a lot of wood, because the temple I am going to build will be large and wonderful.
New English Translation
to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.
Amplified Bible
to prepare for me an abundance of timber, because the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
New American Standard Bible
to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
World English Bible
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
Geneva Bible (1587)
That they may prepare me timber in abudance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderfull.
Legacy Standard Bible
to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
Berean Standard Bible
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
Contemporary English Version
because I'll need a lot of lumber to build such a large and glorious temple.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, 100,000 bushels of cracked wheat, 100,000 bushels of barley, 100,000 gallons of wine, and 100,000 gallons of olive oil."
Darby Translation
even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house that I build shall be great and wonderful.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will need lots of wood because the Temple I am building will be very large and beautiful.
George Lamsa Translation
And shall bring me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be very great and wonderful.
Good News Translation
in preparing large quantities of timber, because this temple I intend to build will be large and magnificent.
Lexham English Bible
to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful.
Literal Translation
even to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
to prepare me moch tymber: for the house that I wyl buylde, shalbe greate & maruelous goodly.
American Standard Version
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
Bible in Basic English
To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That they may prepare me timber enough: For the house whiche I am determined to buylde, shalbe wonderfull great.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that 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.'
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
to prepare timber for me in abundance: for the house which I am building must be great and glorious.
English Revised Version
even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that ful many trees be maad redi to me; for the hows which Y coueyte to bilde is ful greet and noble.
Update Bible Version
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderfully great.
New King James Version
to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the temple which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
New Living Translation
An immense amount of timber will be needed, for the Temple I am going to build will be very large and magnificent.
New Life Bible
to cut many trees for me. For the house I am about to build will be very great and beautiful.
New Revised Standard
to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yea to prepare me timbers in abundance, - for, the house which I am about to build, must be great and most wonderful.
Douay-Rheims Bible
To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.
Revised Standard Version
to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.
Young's Literal Translation
even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building [is] great and wonderful.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
to prepare timber in abundance for me, for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

Contextual Overview

1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the Name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome. 2 And Solomon told out threescore and tenne thousand men to beare burdens, and fourescore thousand to hewe in the mountaine, and three thousand and sixe hundred to ouersee them. 3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou diddest deale with Dauid my father, and diddest send him Cedars to builde him an house to dwell therein, euen so deale with me. 4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burne before him sweet incense, and for the continuall shew-bread, and for the burnt offrings morning and euening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new Moones, and on the solemne feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for euer to Israel. 5 And the house which I build, is great: for great is our God aboue all gods. 6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot conteine him? Who am I then that I should build him an house? Saue onely to burne sacrifice before him? 7 Send me now therefore a man, cunning to worke in gold and in siluer, and in brasse, and in yron, and in purple and crimson, and blew, and that can skil to graue, with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah, and in Ierusalem, whome Dauid my father did prouide. 8 Send me also Cedar trees, firre trees, and Algume trees, out of Lebanon: (for I know that thy seruants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon) and behold, my seruants shalbe with thy seruants, 9 Euen to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build, shalbe wonderfull great. 10 And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wonderful great: Heb. great and wonderful, 2 Chronicles 2:5, 2 Chronicles 7:21, 1 Kings 9:8

Reciprocal: Psalms 78:69 - high Song of Solomon 1:17 - beams Ezekiel 7:20 - the beauty

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden Eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow euery tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euill.
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shal not eate of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Deuteronomy 6:25
And it shall be our righteousnes, if we obserue to doe all these Commandements, before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded vs.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life, to them that lay hold vpon her: and happy is euery one that retaineth her.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life: and hee that winneth soules, is wise.
Isaiah 44:25
That frustrateth the tokens of the lyers, and maketh diuiners mad, that turneth wisemen backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish:
Isaiah 47:10
For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisedome and thy knowledge, it hath peruerted thee, and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me.
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drinke water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even to prepare me timber in abundance,.... Since he would want a large quantity for raftering, cieling, wainscoting, and flooring the temple:

for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great; as to its structure and ornaments.


 
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