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And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard that which thou didst send
to tell me,
and I will do all thy desire concerning the timber of cedar and concerning the timber of fir.
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My slaves shall bring
them down from Lebanon unto the sea, and I will convey them by sea in rafts unto the place that thou shalt appoint me and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive
them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
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So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees
according to all his desire.
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And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat
for food to his household and twenty
thousand measures of pure oil; this gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
12
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two made a covenant together.
13
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men,
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whom he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; they were a month in Lebanon
and two months at home; and Adoniram
was over the levy.
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And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;
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besides Solomon’s chief officers who
were over the work, there were three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people that did the work.
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And the king commanded that they bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the house,
and hewed stones.
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And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders hewed
them, and the stonesquarers; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.