1 Kings 5:9
my servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: I will form them into rafts, and bring them to the place which you shall send to me about; and I will + 5:9 Lit. shake them off. land them there, and you shall take them up: and you shall do my will, in giving bread to my household.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
10So Chiram gave to Solomon cedars, and fir trees, and all his desire.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:25I will therefore go over and see this good land that is beyond Jordan, this good mountain and Antilibanus.
1 Kings 4:2027 And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and they execute every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they + 4:20 Gr. change. omit nothing.
2 Chronicles 2:16And we will cut timber out of Libanus according to all your need, and we will bring it on rafts to the sea of Joppa, and you shall bring it to Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:7And they gave money to the stone-hewers and carpenters, and meat and drink, and oil, to the Sidonians, and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant of Cyrus king of the Persians to them.
Ecclesiastes 1:16I spoke in my heart, saying, Behold, I am increased, and have acquired wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem: also I applied my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.
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 →