1 Kings 5:18

And now the Lord my God has given me rest round about; there is no one plotting against me, and there is no + 5:18 Alex. ἀπαντήμα. See συναντήματα, Ex. 9. 14.evil trespass against me.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

In Context

17Thou knewest + 5:17 Or, that my father David, etc.my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God + 5:17 Gr. from the face of. Hebraism.because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the + 5:17 Or, steps.soles of his feet.

19And, behold, I intend to build a house to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord God spoke to my father David, saying, Thy son whom I will set on thy throne in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.

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Cross References

Joshua 13:5And all the land of Galiath of the Phylistines, and all Libanus eastward from Galgal, under the mountain Aermon as far as the entering in of Emath;

Psalms 83:7the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 5:11-18

10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. 13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a… Read the whole commentary →

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