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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now 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. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And Solomon sent word to Hiram, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor misfortune. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And so I intend 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 on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’ |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now 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 Sidonians.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7As soon as 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.” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9My 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.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And 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. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17At the king’s command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house. |
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