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* And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon , for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father , for Hiram was ever a devotee of David . * And Solomon sent to Hiram , saying , * Thou know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side , until LORD put them under the soles of his feet . * But now LORD my God has given me rest on every side ; there is neither adversary , nor evil occurrence . * And , behold , I purpose to build a house for the name of LORD my God , as LORD spoke to David my father , saying , Thy son , whom I will set upon thy throne in thy place , he shall build the house for my name . * Now therefore command thou that they cut for me cedar trees out of Lebanon . And my servants shall be with thy servants . And I will give thee wages for thy servants according to all that thou shall say , for thou know that there is n * And it came to pass , when Hiram heard the words of Solomon , that he rejoiced greatly , and said , Blessed be LORD this day , who has given to David a wise son over this great people . * And Hiram sent to Solomon , saying , I have heard [that ] which thou have sent to me . I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar , and concerning timber of fir . * My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea . And I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that thou shall appoint me , and will cause them to be broken up there , and thou shall receive them . And thou shall * So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire . * And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household , and twenty measures of pure oil ; thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year . * And LORD gave Solomon wisdom , as he promised him . And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon , and the two made a league together . * And king Solomon raised a conscription out of all Israel , and the conscription was thirty thousand men . * And he sent them to Lebanon , ten thousand a month by courses . They were in Lebanon a month , and at home two months . And Adoniram was over the men subject to task work . * And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens , and eighty thousand who were hewers in the mountains , * besides Solomon 's chief officers who were over the work : three thousand and three hundred who bore rule over the people that labored in the work . * And the king commanded , and they hewed out great stones , costly stones , to lay the foundation of the house with shaped stone . * And Solomon 's builders and Hiram 's builders and the Gebalites fashioned them , and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house .

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