2 Chronicles 2:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

To prepare for me timber in abundance, for the house I am about to build shall 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.

Common English Bible

to prepare plenty of timber for me, because the temple that I am about to build will be magnificent and amazing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

so that very much wood may be prepared for me. For the house that I desire to build is exceedingly great and glorious.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

2 Chronicles 2:9 Cross References

1 Kings 9:8

And though this house be so high, yet shall every one that passeth by be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

2 Chronicles 2:10

And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

2 Chronicles 2:5

And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

2 Chronicles 2:8

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

2 Chronicles 7:21

And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?