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Solomon Prepares to Build the Temple

Solomon’s Agreement with King Hiram

(2 Chr. 2:1–18 )

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1Ki 5:1 - Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, because he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always loved David.

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1Ki 5:2 - Then Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

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1Ki 5:3 - You know how my father David could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were fought against him on every side, until the LORD put his foes[fn] under the soles of his feet.

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1Ki 5:4 - But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence.

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1Ki 5:5 - And behold, I propose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to my father David, saying, “Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for My name.”

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1Ki 5:6 - Now therefore, command that they cut down cedars for me from Lebanon; and my servants will be with your servants, and I will pay you wages for your servants according to whatever you say. For you know there is none among us who has skill to cut timber like the Sidonians.

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1Ki 5:7 - So it was, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly and said,
Blessed be the LORD this day, for He has given David a wise son over this great people!

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1Ki 5:8 - Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying:
I have considered the message which you sent me, and I will do all you desire concerning the cedar and cypress logs.

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1Ki 5:9 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; I will float them in rafts by sea to the place you indicate to me, and will have them broken apart there; then you can take them away. And you shall fulfill my desire by giving food for my household.

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1Ki 5:10 - Then Hiram gave Solomon cedar and cypress logs according to all his desire.

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1Ki 5:11 - And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty[fn] kors of pressed oil. Thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.

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1Ki 5:12 - So the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

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1Ki 5:13 - Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

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1Ki 5:14 - And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the labor force.

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1Ki 5:15 - Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains,

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1Ki 5:16 - besides three thousand three hundred[fn] from the chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.

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1Ki 5:17 - And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple.[fn]

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1Ki 5:18 - So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple.

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NKJV Footnotes

(5:3)

Literally them

(5:11)

Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint and Syriac read twenty thousand.

(5:16)

Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint reads three thousand six hundred.

(5:17)

Literally house, and so frequently throughout this book

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