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1 And 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. 2 And Solomon sent to Hi­ram, say­ing, 3 Thou 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. 4 But now the LORD my God hath giv­en me rest on ev­ery side, ­so that there is nei­ther ad­ver­sary nor evil oc­cur­rent. 5 And, be­hold, I pur­pose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my fa­ther, say­ing, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. 6 Now there­fore com­mand thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my ser­vants shall be with thy ser­vants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy ser­vants ac­cord­ing to all that thou shalt ap­point: for thou know­est that there is not among us any that can skill to hew tim­ber like unto the Sido­nians. 7 And it came to pass, when Hi­ram heard the words of Solomon, that he re­joiced great­ly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath giv­en unto David a wise son over this great peo­ple. 8 And Hi­ram sent to Solomon, say­ing, I have con­sid­ered the things which thou sen­test to me for: and I will do all thy de­sire con­cern­ing tim­ber of cedar, and con­cern­ing tim­ber of fir. 9 My 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. 10 So Hi­ram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees ac­cord­ing to all his de­sire. 11 And 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. 12 And the LORD gave Solomon wis­dom, as he promised him: and there was peace be­tween Hi­ram and Solomon; and they two made a league to­geth­er. 13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Is­rael; and the levy was thir­ty thou­sand men. 14 And 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. 15 And Solomon had three­score and ten thou­sand that bare bur­dens, and fourscore thou­sand hew­ers in the moun­tains; 16 Be­side 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. 17 And the king com­mand­ed, and they brought great stones, cost­ly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foun­da­tion of the house. 18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquar­ers: so they pre­pared tim­ber and stones to build the house.