2 Chronicles 2:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 2)

"Send me also cedar, juniper and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours

2 Chronicles 2:10   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 2)

I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil."

2 Chronicles 2:11   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 2)

Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king."

2 Chronicles 2:13   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 2)

"I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill,

2 Chronicles 2:14   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 2)

whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.

2 Chronicles 2:16   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 2)

and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem."

2 Chronicles 6:2   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."

2 Chronicles 6:8   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

But the Lord said to my father David, 'You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.

2 Chronicles 6:9   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

Nevertheless, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood-he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.'

2 Chronicles 6:14   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

He said: "Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth-you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.

2 Chronicles 6:15   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it-as it is today.

2 Chronicles 6:16   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"Now, Lord, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.'

2 Chronicles 6:17   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

And now, Lord, the God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David come true.

2 Chronicles 6:18   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!

2 Chronicles 6:19   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

Yet, Lord my God, give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.

2 Chronicles 6:20   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6:21   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

2 Chronicles 6:22   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:23   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.

2 Chronicles 6:24   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:25   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 6:26   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

2 Chronicles 6:27   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 6:29   (Read all of 2 Chronicles 6)

and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel-being aware of their afflictions and pains, and spreading out their hands toward this temple-