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1 Kings 5 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:1 - (LXX 5:15) And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:2 - (LXX 5:16) And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:3 - (LXX 5:17) Thou knewest [fn]my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God [fn]because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the [fn]soles of his feet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:4 - (LXX 5:18) And now the Lord my God has given me rest round about; there is no one plotting against me, and there is no [fn]evil trespass against me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:5 - (LXX 5:19) And, behold, I intend to build a house to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord God spoke to my father David, saying, Thy son whom I will set on thy throne in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - (LXX 5:20) And now command, and let men cut wood for me out of Libanus: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, and I will give thee the wages of thy service, according to all that thou shalt say, because thou knowest that we have no one skilled in cutting timber like the Sidonians.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:7 - (LXX 5:21) And it came to pass, as soon as Chiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be God to-day, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:8 - (LXX 5:22) And he sent to Solomon, saying, I have listened concerning all that thou hast sent to me for: I will do all thy will: as for timber of cedar and fir,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - (LXX 5:23) my servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: I will form them into rafts, and bring them to the place which thou shalt send to me about; and I will [fn]land them there, and thou shalt take them up: and thou shalt do my will, in giving bread to my household.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:10 - (LXX 5:24) So Chiram gave to Solomon cedars, and fir trees, and all his desire.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - (LXX 5:25) And Solomon gave to Chiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [fn]as food for his house, and twenty thousand baths of beaten oil thus Solomon gave to Chiram yearly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:12 - (LXX 5:26) And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon as he [fn]promised him; and there was peace between Chiram and Solomon, and they made a covenant between them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:13 - (LXX 5:27) And the king raised [fn]a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - (LXX 5:28) And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand taking turn every month: they were a month in Libanus and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:15 - (LXX 5:29) And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:16 - (LXX 5:30) besides the rulers that were appointed over the works of Solomon, there were three thousand [fn]six hundred [fn]masters who wrought in the works.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:18 - (LXX 5:32) And they prepared the stones and the timber during three years.
BES Footnotes
Or, that my father David, etc.
Or, steps.
Alex. ἀπαντήμα. See συναντήματα, Ex. 9:14.
Lit. shake them off.
Some read μαχὰλ, or μαχὰθ, as if from מכרח cibus.
Gr. spoke to him.
Lit. tribute, etc.
Heb. 300. Alex. 500.
Heb. and Alex. overseers of the people.
Gr. from the face of. Hebraism.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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