“Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand corsof beaten wheat, twenty thousand bathsof barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
2 Chronicles 2:10 (WEB)
Context Reading
8“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, 9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful. 10Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand corsof beaten wheat, twenty thousand bathsof barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.” 11Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.” 12Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, 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 Yahweh and a house for his kingdom.