1 Chronicles 22:4
Good News Translation
He had the people of Tyre and Sidon bring him a large number of cedar logs.

New Revised Standard Version
and cedar logs without number—for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.

Contemporary English Version
He also brought an endless supply of cedar logs from the cities of Sidon and Tyre.

New American Bible
and cedar trees without number. The Sidonians and Tyrians brought great stores of cedar logs to David.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cedar trees were without number, which the Sidonians, and Tyrians brought to David.

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And the cedar trees were without number, which the Sidonians, and Tyrians brought to David.

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2 Samuel 5:11 And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons for walls: and they built a house for David.

1 Kings 5:6-10 Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees, out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to the Sidonians. . . .

2 Chronicles 2:3 He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with David my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in which he dwelt:

Ezra 3:7 And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.

Context
Preparations for the Temple
3And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates, and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight. 4And the cedar trees were without number, which the Sidonians, and Tyrians brought to David.5And David said: Solomon my son is very young and tender, and the house which I would have to be built to the Lord, must be such as to be renowned in all countries: therefore I will prepare him necessaries. And therefore before his death he prepared all the charges.…
Cross References
Numbers 24:6
As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.

1 Kings 5:6
Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees, out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to the Sidonians.

1 Chronicles 22:3
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