1 Kings 5 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.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ 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. ² And Solomon will send to Hiram, saying, ³ 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 ⁴ And now Jehovah my God caused rest to me from round about; not an adversary and not an evil event ⁵ 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. ⁶ 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. ⁷ 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. ⁸ 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. ⁹ 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. ¹⁰ And Hiram will be giving to Solomon woods of cedar and woods of cypress, all his desire. ¹¹ 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. ¹² 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 ¹³ And king Solomon will bring up a tribute from all Israel; and the tribute will be thirty thousand men. ¹⁴ 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. ¹⁵ And there will be to Solomon seventy thousand lifting up a burden, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ The king will command and they will remove great stones, precious stones; to set the house, cut stones. ¹⁸ 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.