1 Kings 5:1
And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 34:24For when I shall have cast out the nations before your face, and shall have enlarged your coasts, no one shall desire your land, whenever you may go up to appear before the Lord your God, three times in the year.
Deuteronomy 20:11If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you.
2 Samuel 5:11And Chiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar wood, and carpenters, and stone-masons: and they built a house for David.
2 Samuel 10:1And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Annon his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 5:13And the king raised + 5:13 Lit. tribute, etc. a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 10:25And they brought every one their gifts, vessels of gold, and raiment, and stacte, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 5:1
The great work which Solomon was raised up to do was the building of the temple; his wealth and wisdom were given him to qualify him for that. In this, especially, he was to be a type of Christ, for "he shall build the temple of the Lord," Zech. vi. 12 . In this chapter we have an account of the preparations he made for that and his other buildings. Gold and silver his good father had prepared in abundance, but timber and stones he must get ready; and about these we have him treating with Hiram king of Tyre. I.… Read the whole commentary →