Now Solomon decided to build a house for the LORD’s name, and a house for his kingdom. 1Ki 5:51Ch 22:101Ki 7:11Ki 8:181Ki 8:201Ki 9:1Deu 12:11Deu 12:5 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them. 2Ch 2:181Ki 5:15-16
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, so deal with me. 1Ch 14:12Sa 5:111Ki 5:1-11 Behold, 1 I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel. Exo 30:7Exo 25:302Ch 2:11Ki 8:181Ki 8:63Lev 23:1-17Lev 24:5-9Num 28:1-29
“The house which I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 1Ch 16:25Exo 15:11Psa 135:51Ch 29:11Ti 6:152Ch 2:9Jer 10:6Psa 145:3 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him? 1Ki 8:272Ch 6:18Isa 66:1Act 7:48-491Ch 29:142Ch 1:102Sa 7:18Deu 12:5-6
“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. 1Ch 22:15-162Ch 2:13-14Exo 31:3-51Ki 7:14Isa 28:26Isa 28:29Isa 60:10
“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants, 1Ki 5:61Ki 10:112Ch 9:10-11 even to prepare timber in abundance for me; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful. 1Ki 9:82Ch 2:52Ch 7:21 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors 2 of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths 3 of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.” 1Ki 5:111Ki 7:261Ki 7:38Ezr 7:22Luk 10:7Rom 13:7-8
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them.” 1Ki 10:92Ch 9:8Psa 72:17Deu 7:7-8 Huram continued, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for the LORD and a house for his kingdom. Psa 33:61Pe 1:3Rev 4:111Ch 29:201Ki 5:72Ch 1:10-122Ch 2:1Act 14:15
Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi, 4 2Ch 4:16 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue, 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. 2Ch 2:71Ki 7:13-14Exo 31:3-4
“Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants; 2Ch 2:101Ki 5:11 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.” Jos 19:461Ki 5:8-9Act 10:32Act 9:36Ezr 3:7Jhn 1:3
Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred. 1Ch 22:21Ki 5:13-161Ki 9:20-212Ch 2:22Ch 8:7-8 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work. 2Ch 2:2