1 Kings 5 : 1 (MKJV)
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king instead of his father. For Hiram was always a lover of David.
1 Kings 5 : 2 (MKJV)
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings 5 : 3 (MKJV)
You know how David my father could not build a house to the name of Jehovah his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 5 : 4 (MKJV)
But now Jehovah my God has given me rest all around. There is no foe nor evil happening.
1 Kings 5 : 5 (MKJV)
And behold, I purpose to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spoke to David my father, saying, Your son whom I will set on your throne in your place; he shall build a house to My name.
1 Kings 5 : 6 (MKJV)
And now command that they cut me cedar trees 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 shall say. For you know that not a man among us can cut timber like the Sidonians.
1 Kings 5 : 7 (MKJV)
And it happened when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, Blessed be Jehovah this day, who has given David a wise son over this great people.
1 Kings 5 : 8 (MKJV)
And Hiram sent to Solomon saying, I have heard that for which you sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
1 Kings 5 : 9 (MKJV)
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will bring them by sea in floats to the place that you shall name. And I will cause them to be left there, and you shall receive them. And you shall fulfill my desire in giving food for my household.
1 Kings 5 : 10 (MKJV)
And Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, all his desire.
1 Kings 5 : 11 (MKJV)
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food for his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. So Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings 5 : 12 (MKJV)
And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as He promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon. And the two of them made a treaty together.
1 Kings 5 : 13 (MKJV)
And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel. And the labor force was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 5 : 14 (MKJV)
And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, by courses. They were a month in Lebanon, and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the labor force.
1 Kings 5 : 15 (MKJV)
And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand woodcutters in the mountains,
1 Kings 5 : 16 (MKJV)
besides the chief of Solomon's overseers who were over the work, thirty-three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
1 Kings 5 : 17 (MKJV)
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, cut stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
1 Kings 5 : 18 (MKJV)
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Giblites cut out and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

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