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1 Kings 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Alliance with King Hiram

(2Ch 2:1–18 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:2 - And Solomon sent word to Hiram,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:10 - So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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.

Conscription of Laborers

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:15 - Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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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