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| 5:1 |
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father;for Hiram always loved David.
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| 5:2 |
And Solomon sent word to Hiram,
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| 5:3 |
'You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
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| 5:4 |
But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side;there is neither adversary nor misfortune.
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| 5:5 |
And so I purpose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, Your son, whom I will set upon your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.'
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| 5:6 |
Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me;and my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set;for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sido'nians.'
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| 5:7 |
When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, 'Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.'
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| 5:8 |
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, 'I have heard the message which you have sent to me;I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.
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| 5:9 |
My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon;and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it;and you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.'
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| 5:10 |
So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,
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| 5:11 |
while Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty thousand cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
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| 5:12 |
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him;and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon;and the two of them made a treaty.
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| 5:13 |
King Solomon raised a levy of forced labor out of all Israel;and the levy numbered thirty thousand men.
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| 5:14 |
And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in relays;they would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home;Adoni'ram was in charge of the levy.
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| 5:15 |
Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country,
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| 5:16 |
besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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| 5:17 |
At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
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| 5:18 |
So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the hewing and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
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