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, and Hiram had always loved David. 1Ch 14:11Ki 5:102Ch 2:32Sa 5:11Psa 45:121Ki 5:131Ki 9:12-14Amo 1:9 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 2Ch 2:3 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet. 1Ch 28:31Ch 22:8Psa 110:11Ch 22:4-61Co 15:25Psa 8:62Ch 6:6-82Sa 7:5-11 But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence. 1Ch 22:91Ki 4:24Act 9:31Isa 9:7Psa 72:7 Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’ 1Ch 17:121Ch 22:102Sa 7:12-131Ch 28:61Ch 28:10Zec 6:12-132Ch 2:1-8 Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.” 2Ch 2:81Co 12:14-211Ki 6:161Ki 6:201Ki 6:9-102Ch 2:10Eph 4:7Ezr 3:7
When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is the LORD today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.” Isa 9:6Pro 23:241Ki 1:481Ki 10:91Ki 3:92Ch 2:11-122Ch 9:7-8Gen 33:5 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber. 1Ki 6:151Ki 6:342Ch 3:52Sa 6:5 My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.” Ezk 27:17Ezr 3:72Ch 2:16Act 12:202Ch 1:15Deu 3:25
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire. Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors 1 of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors 2 of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. 2Ch 2:101Ki 4:22 The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together. 1Ki 3:12Amo 1:91Ki 15:192Ch 1:12Gen 21:32Jas 1:51Ki 4:29
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 1Ki 9:151Ki 4:6 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor. 1Ch 27:1-151Ki 4:6-19 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, 1Ki 9:20-222Ch 2:17-182Ch 8:7-9Ezr 2:58Neh 7:57Neh 7:60 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work. 1Ki 9:232Ch 2:2 The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. 1Ch 22:21Ki 6:71Co 3:11-121Ki 7:91Pe 2:6-7Isa 28:16Rev 21:14-21 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house. Jos 13:5Ezk 27:9Psa 83:7