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What does 2 Chronicles 2:1 mean?
"Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom."
— 2 Chronicles 2:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now Solomon decided to build a house for Yahweh’s name, and a house for his kingdom.
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.
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.
Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
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