Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. II.
note
Other workemen being prouided to build the Temple, 7. Salomon procureth a
cunning artificer from the king of Tyre, and special timber, 16. to be
cutte, and sent from thence.
1 And Salomon determined to build a house to the name
of our Lord, and a palace for himself.
2 And he numbred
seuentie thousand men that caried on their shoulders,
and eightie thousand that should hew stones in the mountaynes,
and ouerseers of them three thousand six hundred.
3 He sent also to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying: As thou
didst with Dauid my father, and didst send him cedar trees, to
build him a house, wherin also he dwelt:
4 so doe with me
that I may build a house to the name of our Lord my God, that
I may consecrate it to burne incense before him, and to perfume
with aromatical spices, and to the euerlasting proposition
of loaues, and for holocaustes, morning and euening, on
the sabbathes also, and the new moones, and the solemnities
of our Lord God for euer, which are commanded Israel.
5 For
the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is great
aboue al goddes.
6 Who then can be able, to build him a
worthie house? if heauen, and the heauens of heauens can
not conteyne him: how great am I, that I may build him a
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Salomon.
house? but to this end only, that incense may be burnt before
him.
7 Send me therfore a cunning man, that hath skil to
worke in gold, and siluer, brasse, and yron, purple, scarlet,
and hyacinth, and that knoweth to make engraued workes
with these artificers, which I haue with me in Iewrie, and
Ierusalem, whom Dauid my father prepared.
8 But send me
also cedar trees, firretrees, and pintrees from Libanus: for I
know that thy seruantes haue skil to hew the timber of
Libanus, and my seruantes shal be with thy seruantes,
9 that
manie trees maybe prepared for me. For the house which I
desire to build, is exceding great, and glorious.
10 Moreouer
to the workemen, that shal hew the trees, thy seruantes, I
wil geue for victuals of wheat twentie thousand cores, and
of barley as manie cores, and of wine twentie thousand,
oyle also twentie thousand sates
11 And Hiram the king
of Tyre by letters, which he sent to Salomon, sayd: Because
the Lord loued his people, therfore hath he made thee
to reigne ouer it.
12 And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord
the God of Israel, that made heauen and earth, who hath
geuen to Dauid the king a sonne wise and learned, and of
vnderstanding, and prudent, to build a house to the Lord, and
a palace for himself.
13 I therfore haue sent thee a man wise
and most skilful Hiram, note my father,
14 the sonne of a woman
of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who
knoweth to worke in gold, and siluer, brasse, and yron, and
marble, and in timber, in purple also, and hiacinth, and silke
and scarlet: and that knoweth to graue al engrauing, and to
deuise wisely whatsoeuer in the worke is necessarie with thy
artificers, and with the artificers of my lord Dauid thy father.
15 The wheate therfore, and barley, and oile, and wine, which
thou my lord hast promised, send to thy seruantes.
16 And we
wil cut downe the trees out of Libanus, as manie as shal be
necessarie for thee, and wil conuey them in boates by the sea
vnto Ioppe: and it shal be thy part to transport them into Ierusalem.
17 Salomon therfore numbred al the men, that were
proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which
Dauid his father numbered, and they were found an hundred
fiftie three thousand and six hundred.
18 And he made of them
seuentie thousand, that should carie burdens on their shoulders,
and eightie thousand, that should cut stones out of
the mountaynes: and three thousand and six hundred ouerseers
of the worke of the people.
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Salomon.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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