◄ 2 Chronicles 2:9 ►
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Good News Translation
in preparing large quantities of timber, because this temple I intend to build will be large and magnificent.

New Revised Standard Version
to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

Contemporary English Version
because I'll need a lot of lumber to build such a large and glorious temple.

New American Bible
in order to prepare for me a great quantity of wood, since the house I intend to build must be great and wonderful.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

2 Chronicles 2:5 For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is great above all gods.

2 Chronicles 7:21 And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

1 Kings 9:8 And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

Context
Preparations for the Temple
…8Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus: for I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus, and my servants shall be with thy servants, 9To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.10And 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.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 2:8
Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus: for I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus, and my servants shall be with thy servants,

2 Chronicles 2:10
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.

2 Chronicles 2:8
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