2 Chronicles 2:12-16

Solomon Will Build a Temple and a Palace

¹²Then Huram continued, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a house for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

¹³“Now then, I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, ¹⁴the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, violet, linen, and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which is assigned to him, to work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, your father David. ¹⁵Now then, let my lord send his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken. ¹⁶We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you as rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem.”