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10 Furthermore, I will provide for your servants the woodcutters who fell the trees, twenty thousand kors of wheat, and twenty thousand kors of barley, along with twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.”[a]

11 In a letter that he sent to King Solomon in response, King Huram of Tyre replied: “Because of the love that the Lord has for his people, he has appointed you as their king.” 12 Then Huram went on to say: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth. He has given King David a wise son blessed with intelligence and discernment who will build a house for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:10 King Solomon had lofty ideas for building a temple worthy of the Lord and these amounts of wheat, barley, wine, and oil promised for the best materials are inflated accordingly. For a more realistic listing of what was offered for the wood, see the parallel passage in 1 Ki 5:11.