2 Chronicles 2:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ To prepare for me timber in abundance, for the house I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

Common English Bible

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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 this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

2 Chronicles 2:10

I will give for your servants, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”

2 Chronicles 2:5

The house which I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

2 Chronicles 2:8

Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,

2 Chronicles 7:21

And at this house, which is exalted, every one passing by will be astonished, and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’