1 Chronicles 14:1
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
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2 Samuel 5:11And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons for walls: and they built a house for David.
1 Kings 5:1And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon: for he heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram had always been David's friend.
1 Kings 5:8And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast desired of me: and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar trees, and fir trees.
1 Kings 5:18And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.
1 Chronicles 17:1Now when David was dwelling in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet: Behold I dwell in a house of cedar : and the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under skins.
2 Chronicles 2:2And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to over- see them.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 14:1
In this chapter we have, I. David's kingdom established, ver. 1, 2 . II. His family built up, ver. 3-7 . III. His enemies, the Philistines, routed in two campaigns, ver. 8-17 . This is repeated here from 2 Sam. v. 11 , &c. Read the whole commentary →