1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.
2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. 4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
5 And the house which I build is great:for great is our God above all gods.
6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon:for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance:for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
10 And, 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.
11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.
12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.
13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need:and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. (153,600)
18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
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Comments by Joan Boney
I've always found when God told me to do a work, I had all that I needed to do that work easily.
In approximately January, 1980, in the night as I slept, a very loud voice, like a trumpet, which I now believe to have been the voice of an angel of God, said three words to me, "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS."
I jumped out of my bed and wrote down these words. KWJS was obviously call letters to either radio or TV. (It turned out to be radio.) I asked God, "Are you telling me to go on radio? I wouldn't know how."
A gentle impression came to my mind: "Call the radio station manager."
That same morning, as soon as I felt the manager might be in his office, I called KWJS radio. I told the manager I thought God might be telling me to go on radio and I asked him how to do that.
The manager told me to make and audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to them and if I fit into their broadcast they would offer me a contract.
This was so easy for me to do. I already had a tape recorder. (In those days we did not have DVD but had cassette tape.) So I sat down immediately (that same day)as soon as manager told me this, and made a recording and sent it to manager that same day.
Within one week, I was broadcasting on KWJS radio.
32 years after this, in 2012, in a dream, God showed me a blog and in the dream I was saying, "It's a nice little voice. It's a little voice but is a nice little voice." I saw immediately how it would be possible to do these writings to the church.
Within 3 days we were writing on this blog and have written daily exhortations since that time at the end of March, 2012.
Again, this was so easy to do. (I already had a computer.) Pam Padgett was a retired computer code writer at Fed Ex and she prayed and set up the blog. She did a cover page of red/orange just to show me what was possible. It was exactly what I thought to be good. And we still use that original design format today on this blog.
Also writing on the blog costs us nothing ... and it goes all over the world instantly ... and we can even edit materials after they have appeared on the blog. We can write as much as we want to write without limitation.
It allows us to fulfill the following scriptures:
Heb. 3 ... 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Heb. 10 ... 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another:and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
It has been (and is) just wonderful ... perfect!
And it is perfect for my current age which is 78 years old.
I can say my later years are better than my former years as did the Word of God say about Job.
Job 42 ... 12 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: