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finished reading 1 Kings 5, 1 Kings 6, 2 Chronicles 2, 2 Chronicles 3 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David....

about 1 year ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 3:17 ESV

He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.

about 1 year ago

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

about 1 year ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 2:17 ESV

Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600.

about 1 year ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 2:7 ESV

So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

about 1 year ago

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highlighted 1 Kings 6:7 ESV

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

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highlighted 1 Kings 6:1 ESV

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.

about 1 year ago

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highlighted 1 Kings 5:13 ESV

King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.

about 1 year ago

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highlighted 1 Kings 5:14 ESV

And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.

about 1 year ago

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highlighted 1 Kings 5:6 ESV

Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

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