the king said to the prophet Nathan, ‘Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.’
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition AND HIRAM king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar timbers, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house. American Standard Version (1901) And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house. Common English Bible Tyre’s King Hiram sent messengers to David with cedar logs, bricklayers, and carpenters to build David a palace. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, and cedar wood, and artisans of walls and of wood, so that they might build a house for him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house. |
the king said to the prophet Nathan, ‘Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.’
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.
Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,
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.’
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.
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 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.
so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.
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.
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.