2 Chronicles 2

1 and to say Solomon to/for to build house: home to/for name LORD and house: home to/for royalty his

Solomon ordered that a temple should be built where Yahweh would be worshiped and also that a palace should be built for himself.

2 and to recount Solomon seventy thousand man burden and eighty thousand man to hew in/on/with mountain: hill country and to conduct upon them three thousand and six hundred

He selected 70,000 men to carry the building supplies and 80,000 men to cut stones [(from quarries/walls of rock) in] the hills. He also chose 3,600 men to supervise them.

3 and to send: depart Solomon to(wards) Hiram king Tyre to/for to say like/as as which to make: do with David father my and to send: depart to/for him cedar to/for to build to/for him house: home to/for to dwell in/on/with him

Solomon sent this message to King Hiram of Tyre [city]: “[Many years ago] when my father David was building his palace, you sent to him cedar logs. Will you send me cedar logs, too?

4 behold I to build house: home to/for name LORD God my to/for to consecrate: dedicate to/for him to/for to offer: burn to/for face: before his incense spice and row continually and burnt offering to/for morning and to/for evening to/for Sabbath and to/for month: new moon and to/for meeting: festival LORD God our to/for forever: enduring this upon Israel

“We are about to build a temple where we will worship Yahweh our God. We want to dedicate it to be a place where we will burn fragrant incense to [honor] him, and a place to put loaves of sacred bread, and for making sacrifices every morning and every evening and every Sabbath day, and to celebrate on the day of every new moon and at other special religious festivals to [honor] Yahweh our God. We want to do those things forever, like Yahweh has commanded.

5 and [the] house: home which I to build great: large for great: large God our from all [the] God

[We want] this temple [to] be a great temple, because our God is greater than all other gods.

6 and who? to restrain strength to/for to build to/for him house: home for [the] heaven and heaven [the] heaven not to sustain him and who? I which to build to/for him house: home that if: except if: except to/for to offer: offer to/for face: before his

But no one can really build a temple that would be big enough for God [to live in], because even the highest heavens are not big enough for him. And I am worthy only to build a place where we can burn sacrifices to him.

7 and now to send: depart to/for me man wise to/for to make: do in/on/with gold and in/on/with silver: money and in/on/with bronze and in/on/with iron and in/on/with purple and crimson and blue and to know to/for to engrave engraving with [the] wise which with me in/on/with Judah and in/on/with Jerusalem which to establish: prepare David father my

Therefore, please send me a man who knows well how to make things from gold and silver and bronze and iron, and to make things from purple and red and blue cloth. He should also know well how to engrave designs. I want him to work in Jerusalem and in other places in Judah with my skilled craftsmen, the ones whom my father David appointed.

8 and to send: depart to/for me tree: wood cedar cypress and algum from [the] Lebanon for I to know which servant/slave your to know to/for to cut: cut tree: wood Lebanon and behold servant/slave my with servant/slave your

I know that your workers are skilled in cutting timber, so also please send me cedar logs, pine logs, and juniper logs from the Lebanon mountains. My workers will work with your workers.

9 and to/for to establish: prepare to/for me tree: wood to/for abundance for [the] house: home which I to build great: large and to wonder

In that way, those workers will provide me with plenty of lumber. [We will need plenty, ] because I want the temple that we will build to be large and beautiful.

10 and behold to/for to chop to/for to cut: cut [the] tree: wood to give: give wheat wound to/for servant/slave your kor twenty thousand and barley kor twenty thousand and wine bath twenty thousand and oil bath twenty thousand

I will pay your workers, the men who cut the logs, 100,000 bushels of ground wheat, 100,000 bushels of barley, 110,000 gallons of wine, and 110,000 gallons of olive oil.”

11 and to say Hiram king Tyre in/on/with writing and to send: depart to(wards) Solomon in/on/with love LORD [obj] people his to give: make you upon them king

[When] Hiram [received that message, he] replied by sending this message to Solomon: “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has appointed you to be their king.”

12 and to say Hiram to bless LORD God Israel which to make [obj] [the] heaven and [obj] [the] land: country/planet which to give: give to/for David [the] king son: child wise to know understanding and understanding which to build house: temple to/for LORD and house: home to/for royalty his

[And Hiram added, ] “Praise Yahweh, the God to whom the Israeli people belong, the one who created the sky and the earth! He has given King David a wise son, one who is very smart/intelligent and who has good skill and understanding. He wants to build a temple for Yahweh and a palace for himself.

13 and now to send: depart man wise to know understanding to/for Huram (Huram)-abi

“I will be sending to you Huram-Abi, a man who is very skilled.

14 son: child woman from daughter Dan and father his man Tyrian to know to/for to make: do in/on/with gold and in/on/with silver: money in/on/with bronze in/on/with iron in/on/with stone and in/on/with tree: wood in/on/with purple in/on/with blue and in/on/with fine linen and in/on/with crimson and to/for to engrave all engraving and to/for to devise: design all plot which to give: give to/for him with wise your and wise lord my David father your

His mother was from the tribe of Dan, and his father was from [here in] Tyre. He is very able to make things from gold and silver and bronze and iron and stone and wood, but he also makes nice things from purple and blue and red cloth, and he does all kinds of engraving. He can make things using any design/pattern that you give to him. He will work with your craftsmen, and the craftsmen who did work for your father, King David.

15 and now [the] wheat and [the] barley [the] oil and [the] wine which to say lord my to send: depart to/for servant/slave his

“Now please send us the wheat and barley and olive oil and wine that you promised to send to us.

16 and we to cut: cut tree: wood from [the] Lebanon like/as all need your and to come (in): bring them to/for you raft upon sea Joppa and you(m. s.) to ascend: establish [obj] them Jerusalem

When you do that, my workers will cut from trees in the Lebanon mountains all the logs that you need [and bring them down to the sea]. Then we will [tie the logs together to] form rafts with them, and float them in the sea to Joppa [city]. From there, you [can arrange for] them [to be] taken up to Jerusalem.

17 and to recount Solomon all [the] human [the] sojourner which in/on/with land: country/planet Israel after [the] numbering which to recount them David father his and to find hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred

Solomon told his workers to count all the people from other countries who were living in Israel, similar to what his father David had done. There were 153,600 of them.

18 and to make from them seventy thousand burden and eighty thousand to hew in/on/with mountain: hill country and three thousand and six hundred to conduct to/for to serve [obj] [the] people

Solomon assigned 70,000 of them to carry materials, and 80,000 to cut stone [from quarries in] the hills, and 3,600 of them to supervise the others and be sure that they worked steadily.