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* And Hiram the king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon , for he heard that they had anointed him king instead of his father . For Hiram was a lover of David all his days . * And Solomon sent to Hiram , saying , * You knew my father David , that he was not able to build a house to the name of Jehovah his God because of the wars that were all around him , until Jehovah had put them under the soles of his feet . * And now Jehovah my God has given me rest all around ; there is no adversary nor evil happening . * And , behold , I am commanding a house to be built to the name of Jehovah my God , as Jehovah spoke to my father David , saying , Your son whom I will appoint in your place on your throne , he shall build the house for My name . * And now , command and they shall cut down for me cedars out of Lebanon . And my servants shall be with your servants . And I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you say . For you know that there is not a man among us knowing to cut timber like the Sidonians . * And it happened , when Hiram heard the words of Solomon , he rejoiced exceedingly , and said , Blessed be Jehovah today , who has given to David a wise son over this great people . * And Hiram sent to Solomon , saying , I have heard that for which you have sent to me . I will do all your will as to cedar wood and fir wood . * My servants will bring it down from Lebanon to the sea . And I will make floats for them in the sea to go to the place that you tell me . And I will spread them out there ; and you shall take them up . And you shall do what I desire , to give food for my house . * And Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees , all his desire . * And Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat , food for his house ; and twenty measures of beaten oil . This Solomon gave to Hiram year by year . * And Jehovah gave wisdom to Solomon , as He had spoken to him . And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon ; and they cut a covenant , the two of them . * And king Solomon caused a labor force to go out of all Israel ; and the labor force was thirty thousand men . * And he sent them to Lebanon , ten thousand a month by courses . They were a month in Lebanon , two months in their own house . And Adoniram was over the labor force . * And Solomon had seventy thousand bearing burdens , and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain ; * besides the rulers of Solomon 's overseers who were over the work , three thousand and three hundred , those ruling over the people who were working in the work . * And the king commanded , and they brought great stones , costly stones , quarried stones , to lay the foundation of the house . * And Solomon 's builders and Hiram 's builders , and the Giblites , cut and prepared the wood and the stones to build the house .

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