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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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><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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Preparations for the Temple<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/2.htm">2 Chronicles 2:1–10</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Hiram king of Tyre will send his servants to Solomon for he heard that they anointed him for king instead of his father: for Hiram was loving to 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 will send to Hiram, saying, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Thou knewest David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Jehovah his God from the face of wars which surrounded him, until Jehovah will give 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 Jehovah my God caused rest to me from round about; not an adversary and not an evil event. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And behold me saying to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake to David my father, saying, Thy son which I will give upon thy throne instead of thee, he shall build the house to 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 shall cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and the hire of thy servants will I give to thee according to all which thou shalt say: for thou knewest that not among us a man knowing to cut wood as the Sidonians.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Hiram’s Reply to Solomon<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/2.htm#11">2 Chronicles 2:11–18</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it will be when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, and he will rejoice greatly, and say, Blessed Jehovah this day who gave to David a wise son over this great people. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Hiram will send to Solomon, saying, I heard what thou sentest to me: I will do all thy pleasure in woods of cedars and in woods of cypress. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My servants shall bring from Lebanon to the sea, and I will put them on rafts upon the sea, even to the place where thou wilt send to me; and I dispersed them there, and thou shalt lift up and thou shalt do my pleasure to give bread to my house. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Hiram will be giving to Solomon woods of cedar and woods of cypress, all his desire. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand cons of wheat food for his house, and twenty cors of beaten oil: thus Solomon will give 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 Jehovah gave wisdom to Solomon, as he spake to him: and peace will be between Hiram and between Solomon; and they two will cut out a covenant.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Labor Force<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And king Solomon will bring up a tribute from all Israel; and the tribute will be thirty thousand men. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he will send them to Lebanon, ten thousand by the month; being changed, a month they shall be in Lebanon and two months in his house. And Adoniram over the tribute. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And there will be to Solomon seventy thousand lifting up a burden, 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>Besides from the chiefs set to Solomon which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred ruling over the people doing in the work. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The king will command and they will remove great stones, precious stones; to set the house, cut stones. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders, and those setting, will cut: and they will prepare the woods and stones to build the house.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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