Sunday Sermonette: Xerox machine

2 Chronicles 2 is the same story as 1 Kings 5. There are some slight differences in language, which simply suggests that the chronicler was working from a different manuscript than the one that became canonized. (The title of this post is intended to be ironic because the point is, there weren ' t any copying machines, only human scribes whose copying was imprecise, whether accidentally or on purpose.) As usual, the numbers are ridiculous. The Tanakh seems to multiply everything by 10, approximately.2 [a]Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of theLord and a royal palace for himself.2 He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.3 Solomon sent this message to Hiram[b] king of Tyre:“Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.4 Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of theLord my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of theLord our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.5 “The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.6 But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build...
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