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OEB 1KI Chapter 5

5 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon because he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father; for Hiram had loved David. 2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,Where Kent reads "warlike foes", the Masoretic Text reads "warfare". 3 ‘You yourself know that David my father was not able to build a temple for the name of Jehovah his God on account of the warlike foes who were about him on every side, until Jehovah brought them into subjection to him. 4 But now Jehovah my God hath given me rest on every side: there is neither adversary nor misfortune. 5 Now I purpose to build a temple for the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spoke to David my father, saying, “Thy son, whom I will set on thy throne in thy place, he shall build the temple for my name.” 6 Therefore command that they cut for me cedar timber from Lebanon; and my servants will go with your servants, and I will give you wages for your servants just as you shall say; for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber as the Sidonians.’

7 Now when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced exceedingly and said, ‘Blessed be Jehovah this day, who hath given to David a wise son over this great people.’ 8 So Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, ‘I have heard your message to me; I, on my part will fulfil all your wishes in regard to cedar and cypress timber. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint, and will have them broken up there, and you shall receive them. You also shall fulfil my wish by providing food for my household.’ 10 So Hiram furnished Solomon cypress timber, as much as he wished. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram four hundred thousand bushels of wheat for food for his household, and one hundred and sixty thousand gallons of oil from the beaten olives. This much Solomon gave to Hiram year by year. 12 And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an alliance with each other.

13 And King Solomon raise a forced levy out of all Israel; and the levy consisted of thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in relays; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was in charge of the forced levy. 15 And Solomon had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountains; 16 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were in charge of the work, three thousand, three hundred, who superintended the people who did the work. 17 And the king commanded that they should hew out great, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the temple with cut stone. 18 And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and especially the Gebalites shaped them and prepared the timber and the stones to build the temple.

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