1 Kings 5:10

So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

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In The King James Version

So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.

In Context

9My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that thou shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shall receive them. And thou shall

11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil; thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.

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Cross References

1 Kings 5:1And 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, for Hiram was ever a devotee of David.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 5:2-10

Solomon's Agreement with Hiram. ( b. c. 1014.) 1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet. 4 But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so… Read the whole commentary →

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