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1 Chronicles 14:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David,  along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters to build a palace for him.

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They gave money to the stonecutters and craftsmen, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea,  according to the authorisation given them by King Cyrus of Persia.


Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram  , of Tyre: Do for me what you did for my father David. You sent him cedars to build him a house to live in.


So David gave orders to gather the resident foreigners that were in the land of Israel,  and he appointed stonecutters to cut finished stones for building God’s house.


When David  had settled into his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan, ‘Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under tent curtains.’


So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders,  along with the Gebalites,  quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple’s construction.


‘Therefore, command that cedars from Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants’ wages according to whatever you say, for you know that not a man among us knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.’


King Hiram of Tyre  sent his emissaries to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place,  for Hiram had always been friends with David.


the king said to the prophet Nathan,  ‘Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.’


Then David knew that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been exalted for the sake of his people Israel.


Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,


so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.





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