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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Kings 5 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > 1 Kings 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/4.htm" title="1 Kings 4">◄</a> 1 Kings 5 <a href="../1_kings/6.htm" title="1 Kings 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/5-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Hiram king of Tyre sends his servants to Solomon, for he heard that they had anointed him for king instead of his father, for Hiram was loving toward David all the days; <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and Solomon sends to Hiram, saying, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“You have known my father David, that he has not been able to build a house for the Name of his God YHWH, because of the wars that have been all around him, until YHWH’s putting them under the soles of his feet. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And now, my God YHWH has given rest to me all around, there is no adversary nor evil occurrence, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and behold, I am saying to build a house for the Name of my God YHWH, as YHWH spoke to my father David, saying, Your son whom I appoint in your stead on your throne, he builds the house for My Name. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And now, command, and they cut down cedars for me out of Lebanon, and my servants are with your servants, and I give the hire of your servants to you according to all that you say, for you have known that there is not a man among us acquainted with cutting wood, like the Sidonians.”<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it comes to pass at Hiram’s hearing the words of Solomon, that he rejoices exceedingly and says, “Blessed [is] YHWH today, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people.” <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Hiram sends to Solomon, saying, “I have heard that which you have sent to me, I do all your desire concerning cedar-wood and fir-wood; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>my servants bring [them] down from Lebanon to the sea, and I make them floats in the sea to the place that you send to me, and I have spread them out there; and you take [them] up, and you execute my desire, to give the food [for] my house.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Hiram is giving cedar-trees and fir-trees to Solomon—all his desire, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and Solomon has given twenty thousand cors of wheat to Hiram, [the] food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil; thus Solomon gives to Hiram year by year. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And YHWH has given wisdom to Solomon as He spoke to him, and there is peace between Hiram and Solomon, and both of them make a covenant.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And King Solomon lifts up a tribute out of all Israel, and the tribute is thirty thousand men, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he sends them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, by changes; they are in Lebanon [for] a month [and] two months in their own house; and Adoniram [is] over the tribute. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And King Solomon has seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>apart from the three thousand and three hundred heads of the officers of Solomon who [are] over the work—those ruling over the people who are working in the business. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the king commands, and they bring great stones, precious stones, [and] hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the house; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew [them], and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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