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1 Kings 5
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1And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and [they execute] every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they omit nothing. And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.
1And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
2And these [were] the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal,
2And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
3and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
3Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
4For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.
4But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
9And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.
9My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
10And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.
10So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
11And he was wiser than all [other] men: and he was wiser than Gæthan the Zarite, and [than] Ænan, and [than] Chalcad and Darala the sons of Mal.
11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
12And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
12And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
13And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Libanus even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes.
13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
14And all the nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and [ambassadors] from all the kings of the earth, as many as heard of his wisdom. And Solomon took to himself the daughter of Pharao to wife, and brought her into the city of David until he had finished the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the wall of Jerusalem. Then went up Pharao the king of Egypt, and took Gazer, and burnt it and the Chananite dwelling in Mergab; and Pharao gave them as a dowry to his daughter the wife of Solomon: and Solomon rebuilt Gazer.
14And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.
15And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.
15And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
16And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,
16Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
17Thou knewest my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
18And now the Lord my God has given me rest round about; there is no one plotting against [me], and there is no evil trespass [against me].
18And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.