2 Chronicles 2:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.

¹⁰ And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the trees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many cores of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.

¹¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because the Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee king over them.