1 Kings 5:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 4 And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ My servants shall bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, make them into rafts, and float them by sea to the place that you direct. I will have them released there, and you shall take them away. And you shall fulfill my desire by providing food for my household.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

Common English Bible

⁹ My servants will bring the wood down the Lebanon Mountains to the sea. I’ll make rafts out of them and float them on the sea to the place you specify. There I’ll dismantle them, and you can carry them away. Now, as for what you must do for me in return, I ask you to provide for my royal house.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will arrange them together as rafts on the sea, as far as the place that you will indicate to me. And I will land them there, and you will take them. And you shall offer to me what is necessary to give food to my house."

1 Kings 5:9 Cross References

1 Kings 3:12

7 And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the chamber.

1 Kings 4:20

5 And Juda and Israel dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 5:10

5 And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

1 Kings 5:8

3 And king Solomon chose workmen cut of all Israel, and the levy was of thirty thousand men.

1 Kings 9:27

And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,

2 Chronicles 1:15

He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with David my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in which he dwelt:

2 Chronicles 2:16

Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.

2 Chronicles 9:22

7 And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.

Ezra 3:7

2 But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.

Job 32:8

3 Lest you should say : We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,

Ezekiel 27:17

5 The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise : and thou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the sea.

Acts 12:20

Then they, fasting and praying, and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

Deuteronomy 3:25

And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.