1 Kings 5:1-2

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

5:1 (5:15) 1  King Hiram of Tyre 2  sent messengers 3  to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.) 5:2 Solomon then sent this message to Hiram:

1 Kings 5:8-9

5:8 Hiram then sent this message to Solomon: “I received 4  the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need. 5  5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. 6  There I will separate the logs 7  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” 8 

1 Kings 5:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

5:1 (5:15) 9  King Hiram of Tyre 10  sent messengers 11  to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)

1 Kings 14:1

14:1 12 At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.

1 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.

2 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

3 tn Heb “his servants.”

4 tn Heb “heard.”

5 tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”

6 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

7 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

8 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

9 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.

10 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

11 tn Heb “his servants.”

12 tc Some mss of the Old Greek lack vv. 1-20.