The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[slave]

[h=1](1 Kings 5:1): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]5 Now 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 had always been a friend of David.

 

[slave]

(1 Kings 5:2): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)

2 Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 5:3 (KJV)
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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 5:4 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]But now the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 5:5 (KJV)
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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 5:6 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]“So give orders that cedars[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 5:7 (KJV)
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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 5:8 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot] So Hiram sent word to Solomon:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]“I have received the message you sent me and will do all you want in providing the cedar and juniper logs.[/FONT]
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[willfollowsGod]

1 Kings 5:9
New International Version (NIV)

My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food for my royal household.”

 

[slave]

[h=1](1 Kings 5:10): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]10 So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber.[/FONT]


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[slave]

[h=1](1 Kings 5:11): ... New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]11 Solomon then gave Hiram 20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year.[/FONT]


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[Chester]

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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.

I Kings 5:12
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[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 5:13 (King James 2000 Bible)
And king Solomon raised forced labor out of all Israel; and the forced labor was thirty thousand men.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 5:14 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] was in charge of the forced labor.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Kings 5:15 (NIV)
Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 5:16 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

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[Marcelo]

[h=1]1 Kings 5:17 New International Version (NIV)[/h]17 [FONT=&quot]At the king’s command they removed from the quarry[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] large blocks of high-grade stone[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple.[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

1 Kings 5:18 (NIV)

The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and workers from Byblos cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.

 

[Deade]

1 Kings 6:1: "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD." KJV

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Kings 6:2
New International Version (NIV)

The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.

b. That is, about 90 feet long, 30 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 27 meters long, 9 meters wide and 14 meters high