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2 Chronicles 8:18 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon. "
2 Chronicles 8:18
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Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
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2 Chronicles 8:1
"And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,"
2 Chronicles 8:2
"That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there."
2 Chronicles 8:3
"And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it."
2 Chronicles 8:4
"And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath."
2 Chronicles 8:5
"Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;"
2 Chronicles 8:6
"And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion."
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