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1|Kings|5:1|-|Now |a|Hiram the king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always loved David.
1|Kings|5:2|-||a|And Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,
1|Kings|5:3|-|You know about David my father that he was not able to |a|build a house for the name of Jehovah his God because of the warfare that his enemies surrounded him with, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.
1|Kings|5:4|-|But now Jehovah my God has given me |a|rest all around; there is no adversary or evil occurrence.
1|Kings|5:5|-|And now I intend to |a|build a house for the name of Jehovah my God according to what Jehovah spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.
1|Kings|5:6|-|Now therefore command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants, and I will give you payment for your servants, according to whatever you say; for you know that among us there is no one who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.
1|Kings|5:7|-|And when Hiram heard Solomon’s words, he rejoiced greatly and said, Blessed be Jehovah this day, who has given David a wise son over this great people.
1|Kings|5:8|-|And Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, I have heard the message which you have sent me. I will do all your desire concerning |1|cedar timber and |1|cypress timber.
1|Kings|5:9|-|My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you direct me; and I will break them apart there, and you can carry them off. And you can fulfill my desire by giving food to my household.
1|Kings|5:10|-|So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber, all that he desired.
1|Kings|5:11|-|And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand |1|cors of wheat as food for his household and twenty cors of the finest oil; this did Solomon give to Hiram year by year.
1|Kings|5:12|-|And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
1|Kings|5:13|-|And King Solomon levied forced labor out of all Israel, and the forced labor amounted to thirty thousand men.
1|Kings|5:14|-|And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: one month they were in Lebanon, and two months they were at home. And Adoniram was over the forced labor.
1|Kings|5:15|-|And Solomon had seventy thousand burden bearers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,
1|Kings|5:16|-|Besides Solomon’s three thousand three hundred chief officers over the work, who directed the people who did the work.
1|Kings|5:17|-|And the king commanded, and they quarried great |a|stones, costly stones, in order to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone.
1|Kings|5:18|-|And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites fashioned the stone and prepared the timber and the stones in order to build the house.
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