2 Chronicles 2:9
What does 2 Chronicles 2:9 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Chronicles 2:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building <FI>is<Fi> great and wonderful.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house that I build shall be great and wonderful.
Context
v.8Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
v.9This passage
v.10And, 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 9:8
And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?
- 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 Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?
- 2 Chronicles 2:5
And the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.