2 Chronicles 2:9

Verse

Berean Standard Bible

to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.

American Standard Version (1901)

even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

Bible in Basic English

To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

Free Bible Version

to produce a large quantity of timber because the Temple I'm building will be really large and very impressive.

Geneva Bible 1599

That they may prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderfull.

King James (Authorized) Version

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

Translation for Translators

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.

Unlocked Literal Bible

in order to prepare for me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build will be great and marvelous.

Noah Webster Bible

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderfully great.

World English Bible

even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

Young's Literal Translation

even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building [is] great and wonderful.

Context

Preparations for the Temple

⁸Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours⁹to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful. ¹⁰I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil. ”

Sermons

The Lord Stirred Up the Spirit of Cyrus.

F.B. Meyer

Summary

In this verse, King Solomon is sending a message to King Huram of Tyre, requesting skilled workers to help build the temple of the Lord. Solomon acknowledges that only God can truly honor the temple, expressing his desire for the temple to be a place where sacrifices are made to the Lord. This verse highlights the importance of seeking God's guidance and involving skilled individuals in the work of the Lord, emphasizing the reverence and dedication required in building a place of worship for God.

Commentary

John Gill

John Gill Bible Commentary

Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,.... Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half broke for pottage, as others; but ground into flour, as R. Jonah (d) interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered "food" (e) that is, for his household, as in Kg1 5:11, and the hire of these servants is proposed to be given in this way, because wheat was scarce with the Tyrians, and they were obliged to have it from the Jews, Act 12:20, and twenty thousand measures of barley; the measures of both these were the cor, of which see Kg1 5:11, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil; which measure was the tenth part of a "cor". According to the Ethiopians, a man might consume four of these measures in the space of a month (f). (d) Apud Kimchium in loc. (e) So Kimchi, "pro" "ineuria librariorum", Schindler, Lex. Pentaglott. col. 73. (f) Ludolf. Lexic. Ethiop. p. 197.