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2 Chronicles 2:8-10
New Catholic Bible
2 Chronicles 2:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 Also send me cedar, cypress, and juniper timber from Lebanon, for I am well aware that your servants are skilled in felling the trees of Lebanon.
“My servants will work with your servants 9 in order to prepare for me a vast quantity of timber, for the house that I intend to build will be great in size and a marvel to behold. 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]
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- 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.
