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1 Kings 5:9

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My servants will bring the logs from the Lebanon mountains to the Mediterranean Sea and make them into rafts and float them along the coast to whatever place you choose. Then we will break the rafts apart so you can carry the logs away. You can pay me by supplying me with food for my household.”

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I will give you what you asked for! I will give you a wise and understanding heart such as no one else has had or ever will have!

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They were very contented, with plenty to eat and drink.

So Hiram supplied as much cedar and cypress timber as Solomon desired.

Then he sent this reply to Solomon: “I have received your message, and I will supply all the cedar and cypress timber you need.

Hiram sent experienced crews of sailors to sail the ships with Solomon’s men.

The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.

We will cut whatever timber you need from the Lebanon mountains and will float the logs in rafts down the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Joppa. From there you can transport the logs up to Jerusalem.”

So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth.

Then the people hired masons and carpenters and bought cedar logs from the people of Tyre and Sidon, paying them with food, wine, and olive oil. The logs were brought down from the Lebanon mountains and floated along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Joppa, for King Cyrus had given permission for this.

But there is a spirit within people, the breath of the Almighty within them, that makes them intelligent.

I said to myself, “Look, I am wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I have greater wisdom and knowledge than any of them.”

Judah and Israel traded for your wares, offering wheat from Minnith, figs, honey, olive oil, and balm.

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they sent a delegation to make peace with him because their cities were dependent upon Herod’s country for food. The delegates won the support of Blastus, Herod’s personal assistant,

Please let me cross the Jordan to see the wonderful land on the other side, the beautiful hill country and the Lebanon mountains.’




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