Thematic Bible
1 Kings 5:1 (show verse)
Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him as king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend for David.
1 Kings 5:2 (show verse)
Then Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings 5:3 (show verse)
"You knew David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God, {in view of the warfare} which surrounded him, until Yahweh placed them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 5:4 (show verse)
But now Yahweh my God has given me rest all around me. There is no adversary, and there is no bad occurrence.
1 Kings 5:5 (show verse)
Here I am, intending to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh promised to my father David, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set in your place on your throne, shall build the house for my name.'
1 Kings 5:6 (show verse)
So then, command that they may cut cedars for me from Lebanon, and let my servants be with your servants. The wage of your servants I will give to you according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows [how] to cut timber like the Sidonians."
1 Kings 5:7 (show verse)
When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and he said, "Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people."
1 Kings 5:8 (show verse)
Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard what you have sent to me; I will do all of your desire concerning the timber of cedars and concerning the timber of cypresses.
1 Kings 5:9 (show verse)
My servants will bring [them] down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them [into] rafts in the sea [to float to] the place which you indicated to me. Then I shall break them up there, and you may carry [them further], and {you shall meet my needs} by giving food for my house."
1 Kings 5:10 (show verse)
So Hiram was giving to Solomon the cedar timbers and the cypress timbers, {everything he needed}.
1 Kings 5:11 (show verse)
Then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand dry measures of wheat [as] food for his household, and twenty dry measures of {specially prepared olive oil}; thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings 5:12 (show verse)
Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised to him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them {made} a covenant.
1 Kings 5:13 (show verse)
Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor [numbered] thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 5:14 (show verse)
He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand {every month}; the work groups were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; now Adoniram was over the forced labor.
1 Kings 5:15 (show verse)
Solomon had seventy thousand {common laborers} and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country.
1 Kings 5:16 (show verse)
Besides the chiefs of the officers Solomon had, there were three thousand three hundred having charge over the people who were doing the work.
1 Kings 5:17 (show verse)
When the king commanded, they quarried great stones [and] precious stones to lay [the] foundation of the house [with] hewn stones.
1 Kings 5:18 (show verse)
So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites hewed [stones], and they prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.