2 Chronicles 2:10-12
1599 Geneva Bible
10 And behold, I will give to thy servants the cutters and the hewers of timber twenty thousand [a]measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty [b]thousand baths of oil.
11 Then Huram king of Tyre answered in writing which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee King over them.
12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which made the heaven and the earth, and that hath given unto David the King a [c]wise son, that hath discretion, prudence and understanding to build an house for the Lord, and a palace for his kingdom.
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- 2 Chronicles 2:10 Hebrew, Corins.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 Of Bath read 1 Kings 7:26, it is called also Ephah, but Ephah is to measure dry things, as Bath is a measure for liquors.
- 2 Chronicles 2:12 The very heavens confessed that it was a singular gift of God, when he gave to any nation a King that was wise and of understanding, albeit it appeareth that this Hiram had the true knowledge of God.
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