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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 Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved 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 Chiram, saying,
3and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
3You knew 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.
4For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.
4And 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].
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 Libanus to the sea: I will form them [into] rafts, [and bring them] to the place which you shall send to me [about]; and I will land them there, and you shall take [them] up: and you shall do my will, in giving bread to my household.
10And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.
10So Chiram gave to Solomon cedars, and fir trees, and 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 to Chiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as food for his house, and twenty thousand baths of beaten oil thus Solomon gave to Chiram yearly.
12And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
12And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised him; and there was peace between Chiram and Solomon, and they made a covenant between them.
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 the king 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 Libanus, ten thousand taking turn every month: they were a month in Libanus 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 seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain;
16And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,
16besides the rulers that were appointed over the works of Solomon, [there were] three thousand six hundred masters who wrought in the works.
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.
17[And the king commanded and they ] [brought great stones, precious stones for the foundation of the house, and unhewn stones. ]
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 they prepared the stones and the timber [during] three years.