“even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.”
2 Chronicles 2:9 (WEB)
Context Reading
7“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. 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.”