1 Kings 5:9

New International Reader's Version

My men will bring them from Lebanon down to the Mediterranean Sea. I’ll make them into rafts. I’ll float them to the place you want me to. When the rafts arrive, I’ll separate the logs from each other. Then you can take them away. And here’s what I want in return. Provide food for all the people in my palace.”

Cross References

1 Kings 3:12

I will give it to you. I will give you a wise and understanding heart. So here is what will be true of you. There has never been anyone like you. And there never will be.

1 Kings 4:20

There were many people in Judah and Israel. In fact, they were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. They ate, drank and were happy.

1 Kings 5:10

So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the cedar and juniper logs he wanted.

1 Kings 5:8

So Hiram sent a message to Solomon. Hiram said, “I have received the message you sent me. I’ll do everything you want me to. I’ll provide the cedar and juniper logs.

1 Kings 9:27

Hiram sent his men to serve on the ships together with Solomon’s men. Hiram’s sailors knew the sea.

2 Chronicles 1:15

The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones. He made cedar wood as common there as sycamore-fig trees in the western hills.

2 Chronicles 2:16

And we’ll cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need. We’ll make rafts out of them. We’ll float them by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 9:22

King Solomon was richer than all the other kings on earth. He was also wiser than they were.

Ezra 3:7

The people gave money to those who worked with stone and those who worked with wood. They gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre. Then those people brought cedar logs down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea. They floated them down to Joppa. Cyrus, the king of Persia, authorized them to do it.

Job 32:8

But the spirit in people gives them understanding. The breath of the Mighty One gives them wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I said to myself, “Look, I’ve now grown wiser than anyone who ruled over Jerusalem in the past. I have a lot of wisdom and knowledge.”

Ezekiel 27:17

“ ‘ “Judah and Israel did business with you. They traded wheat from Minnith, sweets, honey, olive oil and lotion for your products.

Acts 12:20

He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they got together and asked for a meeting with him. This was because they depended on the king’s country to supply them with food. They gained the support of Blastus and then asked for peace. Blastus was a trusted personal servant of the king.

Deuteronomy 3:25

Let me go across the Jordan River. Let me see the good land beyond it. I want to see that fine hill country and Lebanon.”