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The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 2
Chapter 369 of 1,075
Canonical reference 2 Chronicles 2
English
World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)
1. Now Solomon decided to build a house for the LORD’s name, and a house for his kingdom.
2. Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
3. Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me.
4. Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
5. “The house which I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
6. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
7. “Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
8. “Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,
9. even to prepare timber in abundance for me; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
10. Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
11. Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them.”
12. Huram continued, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for the LORD and a house for his kingdom.
13. Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,
14. the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device, that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
15. “Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;
16. and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”
17. Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
18. He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.
French
Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)
1. Salomon compta soixante-dix mille hommes pour porter les fardeaux, quatre-vingt mille pour tailler les pierres dans la montagne, et trois mille six cents pour les surveiller.
2. Salomon envoya dire à Hiram, roi de Tyr : « Comme tu as fait pour David, mon père, à qui tu as envoyé des cèdres afin qu’il se bâtit une maison pour y habiter, fais de même pour moi.
3. Voici que j’élève une maison au nom de Yahweh, mon Dieu, pour la lui consacrer, pour brûler devant lui le parfum odoriférant, pour présenter continuellement les pains de proposition et pour offrir les holocaustes du matin et du soir, des sabbats, des nouvelles lunes et des fêtes de Yahweh, notre Dieu, selon qu’il est prescrit à Israël pour jamais.
4. La maison que je vais bâtir doit être grande, car notre Dieu est plus grand que tous les dieux.
5. Mais qui est capable de lui bâtir une maison, puisque le ciel et le ciel des cieux ne peuvent le contenir ? Et qui suis-je pour lui bâtir une maison, si ce n’est pour faire brûler des parfums devant lui ?
6. Et maintenant, envoie-moi un homme habile à travailler l’or et l’argent, l’airain et le fer, la pourpre rouge, le cramoisi et la pourpre violette, et connaissant l’art de la gravure, pour qu’il travaille avec les hommes habiles qui sont auprès de moi en Juda et à Jérusalem, et que David, mon père, a préparés.
7. Envoie-moi aussi du Liban des bois de cèdre, de cyprès et de santal ; car je sais que tes serviteurs savent couper les bois du Liban. Mes serviteurs seront avec tes serviteurs,
8. pour me préparer du bois en abondance, car la maison que je vais bâtir sera grande et magnifique.
9. Et voici qu’aux bûcherons qui couperont les bois, à tes serviteurs, je donnerai, pour leur nourriture, vingt mille cors de froment, vingt mille cors d’orge, vingt mille baths de vin et vingt mille baths d’huile. »
10. Hiram, roi de Tyr, répondit dans une lettre qu’il envoya à Salomon : « C’est parce que Yahwehaime son peuple qu’il t’a établi roi sur eux. »
11. Et Hiram dit : « Béni soit Yahweh, Dieu d’Israël, qui a fait le ciel et la terre, de ce qu’il a donné au roi David un fils sage, prudent et intelligent, qui va bâtir une maison à Yahwehet une maison royale pour lui !
12. Et maintenant, je t’envoie un homme habile et intelligent, maître Hiram,
13. fils d’une femme d’entre les filles de Dan et d’un père Tyrien, habile à travailler l’or et l’argent, l’airain et le fer, les pierres et les bois, la pourpre rouge, la pourpre violette, le cramoisi, le lin fin, à faire toute espèce de gravures, et à élaborer tout plan qui lui sera proposé, de concert avec tes hommes habiles et avec les hommes habiles de mon seigneur David, ton père.
14. Et maintenant, que mon seigneur envoie à ses serviteurs le froment, l’orge, l’huile et le vin dont il a parlé.
15. Et nous, nous couperons des bois du Liban, autant que tu en auras besoin ; et nous te les expédierons par mer en radeaux jusqu’à Joppé, et toi, tu les feras monter à Jérusalem.
16. Salomon compta tous les étrangers qui étaient dans le pays d’Israël, d’après le dénombrement qu’avait fait David, son père. On en trouva cent cinquante trois mille six cents.
17. Et il en prit soixante-dix mille pour les fardeaux, quatre-vingt mille pour tailler les pierres dans la montagne, et trois mille six cents comme surveillants pour faire travailler le peuple.
Latin
Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)
1. Decrevit autem Salomon ædificare domum nomini Domini, et palatium sibi.
2. Et numeravit septuaginta millia virorum portantium humeris, et octoginta millia qui cæderent lapides in montibus, præpositosque eorum tria millia sexcentos.
3. Misit quoque ad Hiram regem Tyri, dicens: Sicut egisti cum David patre meo, et misisti ei ligna cedrina ut ædificaret sibi domum, in qua et habitavit:
4. sic fac mecum ut ædificem domum nomini Domini Dei mei, ut consecrem eam ad adolendum incensum coram illo, et fumiganda aromata, et ad propositionem panum sempiternam, et ad holocautomata mane, et vespere, sabbatis quoque, et neomeniis, et solemnitatibus Domini Dei nostri in sempiternum, quæ mandata sunt Israëli.
5. Domus enim quam ædificare cupio, magna est: magnus est enim Deus noster super omnes deos.
6. Quis ergo poterit prævalere, ut ædificet ei dignam domum? si cælum, et cæli cælorum, capere eum nequeunt, quantus ego sum, ut possim ædificare ei domum? sed ad hoc tantum, ut adoleatur incensum coram illo.
7. Mitte ergo mihi virum eruditum, qui noverit operari in auro, et argento, ære, et ferro, purpura, coccino, et hyacintho: et qui sciat sculpere cælaturas cum his artificibus quos mecum habeo in Judæa, et Jerusalem, quos præparavit David pater meus.
8. Sed et ligna cedrina mitte mihi, et arceuthina, et pinea de Libano: scio enim quod servi tui noverint cædere ligna de Libano: et erunt servi mei cum servis tuis,
9. ut parentur mihi ligna plurima. Domus enim quam cupio ædificare, magna est nimis, et inclyta.
10. Præterea operariis qui cæsuri sunt ligna, servis tuis, dabo in cibaria tritici coros viginti millia, et hordei coros totidem, et vini viginti millia metretas, olei quoque sata viginti millia.
11. Dixit autem Hiram rex Tyri per litteras quas miserat Salomoni: Quia dilexit Dominus populum suum, idcirco te regnare fecit super eum.
12. Et addidit, dicens: Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël, qui fecit cælum et terram: qui dedit David regi filium sapientem et eruditum et sensatum atque prudentem, ut ædificaret domum Domino, et palatium sibi.
13. Misi ergo tibi virum prudentem et scientissimum Hiram patrem meum,
14. filium mulieris de filiabus Dan, cujus pater fuit Tyrius, qui novit operari in auro, et argento, ære, et ferro, et marmore, et lignis, in purpura quoque, et hyacintho, et bysso, et coccino: et qui scit cælare omnem sculpturam, et adinvenire prudenter quodcumque in opere necessarium est cum artificibus tuis, et cum artificibus domini mei David patris tui.
15. Triticum ergo, et hordeum, et oleum, et vinum, quæ pollicitus es, domine mi, mitte servis tuis.
16. Nos autem cædemus ligna de Libano, quot necessaria habueris, et applicabimus ea ratibus per mare in Joppe: tuum autem erit transferre ea in Jerusalem.
17. Numeravit igitur Salomon omnes viros proselytos qui erant in terra Israël, post dinumerationem quam dinumeravit David pater ejus, et inventi sunt centum quinquaginta millia, et tria millia sexcenti.
18. Fecitque ex eis septuaginta millia qui humeris onera portarent, et octoginta millia qui lapides in montibus cæderent: tria autem millia et sexcentos præpositos operum populi.
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Verses in this chapter
- Verse 1Now Solomon decided to build a house for the LORD’s name, and a house for his kingdom.
- Verse 2Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three …
- Verse 3Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in w…
- Verse 4Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet s…
- Verse 5“The house which I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
- Verse 6But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should buil…
- Verse 7“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who k…
- Verse 8“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in…
- Verse 9even to prepare timber in abundance for me; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
- Verse 10Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of …
- Verse 11Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you ki…
- Verse 12Huram continued, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, …
- Verse 13Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,
- Verse 14the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronz…
- Verse 15“Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;
- Verse 16and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry …
- Verse 17Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them;…
- Verse 18He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six …