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1 Kings 5 📜 📕 ↷
8 And Hiram sent to Salomon, saying: I have heard whatsoever thou hast willed me: I will do all thy will in cedar trees, and fir trees.📜💬📚
9 My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: and I will put them in boats in the sea, unto the place which thou shalt signify to me; & will land them there, and thou shalt take them: and thou shalt allow me necessaries, that there be meat given for my house.📜💬📚
10 Therefore Hiram gave Salomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to all his will.📜💬📚
11 And Salomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand cores of wheat, for provision for his house, and twenty cores of most pure oil: these things did Salomon give to Hiram every year.📜💬📚
12 Our Lord also gave wisdom to Salomon, as he spake to him: & there was peace between Hiram & Salomon, and both made a league.📜💬📚
Solomon's Labor Force
13 And king Salomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the taxed number was of thirty thousand men.📜💬📚
14 And he sent them into Libanus, ten thousand every month by course, so that two months they were in their houses: and Adoniram was over this taxing.📜💬📚
15 And Salomon had seventy thousand of them that carried burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stones in the mountains:📜💬📚
16 besides the overseers which were over every work, in number three thousand, and three hundred that commanded the people, & them that did the work.📜💬📚
17 And the king commanded, that they should take great stones, chosen stones for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:📜💬📚
18 which the masons of Salomon, and masons of Hiram hewed: moreover the Giblians prepared timber and stones, to build the house.📜💬📚
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