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1 Kings 5:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

My servants will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place you indicate. I will break them apart there, and you can take them away. You then can meet my needs by providing my household with food.’

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Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They exchanged wheat from Minnith,  meal,  honey, oil, and balm for your goods.


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.


Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. Together they presented themselves before him. After winning over Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedroom, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.


We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and bring them to you as rafts by sea to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.


The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.


Please let me cross over and see the beautiful land  on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.


Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying, ‘I have heard your message; I will do everything you want regarding the cedar and cypress timber.


So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,


With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon’s servants.


I will therefore do what you have asked.  I will give you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you before and never will be again.


Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea;  they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.


King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the world in riches and wisdom.


But it is the spirit in a person – the breath  from the Almighty – that gives anyone understanding.


I said to myself, ‘See, I have amassed wisdom far beyond all those who were over Jerusalem before me,  and my mind has thoroughly grasped  wisdom and knowledge.’





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