1 Kings 5:2

5:2 Solomon then sent this message to Hiram:

1 Kings 7:13

Solomon Commissions Hiram to Supply the Temple

7:13 King Solomon sent for Hiram ¹  of Tyre. ² 

1 Kings 9:14

9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents ³  of gold.

1 Kings 5:10

5:10 So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed, ⁴ 

1 Kings 9:27

9:27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men. ⁵ 

1 Kings 5:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

5:1 (5:15) ⁶  King Hiram of Tyre ⁷  sent messengers ⁸  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 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ⁹  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ¹⁰  as well as 20,000 baths ¹¹  of pure ¹²  olive oil. ¹³ 

1 Kings 7:40

7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He ¹⁴  finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 9:11

9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre ¹⁶  twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.

[7:13]  ¹ tn Heb “King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.” In 2 Chr 2:13 (MT v. 12) and 4:11, 16 his name is spelled “Huram.”

[7:13]  ² map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[9:14]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”

[5:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and Hiram gave to Solomon cedar wood and the wood of evergreens, all his desire.”

[9:27]  ¹ tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”

[5:1]  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.

[5:1]  ² map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[5:1]  ³ tn Heb “his servants.”

[5:11]  ¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ² tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

[7:40]  ¹ tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:40]  ² tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the Lord.”

[9:11]  ¹ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.