“Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom.”
2 Chronicles 2:1 (WEB)
Context Reading
1Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom. 2Solomon 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. 3Solomon 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.