2 Chronicles 2:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

because I'll need a lot of timber to build such a large and glorious temple.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:8

This temple will become a pile of rocks! Everyone who walks by will be shocked, and they will ask, “Why did the LORD do such a terrible thing to his people and to this temple?”

2 Chronicles 2:10

I will pay your woodcutters two thousand tonnes of wheat, the same amount of barley, four hundred thousand litres of wine, and that same amount of olive oil.

2 Chronicles 2:5

This will be a great temple, because our God is greater than all other gods.

2 Chronicles 2:8

I know that you have workers who are experts at cutting timber in Lebanon. So would you please send me some cedar, pine, and juniper logs? My workers will be there to help them,

2 Chronicles 7:21

This temple is now magnificent. But when these things happen, everyone who walks by it will be shocked and will ask, “Why did the LORD do such a terrible thing to his people and to this temple?”