1 Chronicles 14:1 Cross References - MKJV

¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timbers of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house.

¹¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons to David. And they built David a house. ¹² And David saw that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that He had made his kingdom sure for His people Israel's sake. ¹³ And David took more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron. And there were still more sons and daughters born to David. ¹⁴ These are the names of those to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, ¹⁵ and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, ¹⁶ and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

² the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.

¹ And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king instead of his father. For Hiram was always a lover of David.

⁶ And now command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon, and my servants shall be with your servants. And I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that not a man among us can cut timber like the Sidonians.

⁸ And Hiram sent to Solomon saying, I have heard that for which you sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. ⁹ My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will bring them by sea in floats to the place that you shall name. And I will cause them to be left there, and you shall receive them. And you shall fulfill my desire in giving food for my household. ¹⁰ And Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, all his desire. ¹¹ And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food for his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. So Solomon gave to Hiram year by year. ¹² And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as He promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon. And the two of them made a treaty together.

¹⁸ And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Giblites cut out and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

¹ And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house. And he finished all his house. ² And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. ³ And it was covered with cedar above on the beams that lay on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row. ⁴ And windows were in three rows, and light was against light in three rows. ⁵ And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows. And the front of a window was against a window in three rows. ⁶ And he made a porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. And the porch was before them, and the pillars and the roof were over them. ⁷ And he made a porch of the throne where he judged, the porch of judgment. And it was covered with cedar from floor to floor. ⁸ As to his house where he lived, the other court was within the porch, as this work was. Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken, like this porch. ⁹ All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, inside and out, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. ¹⁰ And the foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. ¹¹ And above were costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stone and cedar. ¹² And the great court all around was with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and for the porch of the house.

¹ And it happened as David sat in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains.

² And David commanded the strangers in the land of Israel to be gathered. And he set masons to cut squared stones to build the house of God.

³ And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

⁸ And send me cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon. For I know that your servants are skillful to cut timber in Lebanon. And, behold, my servants shall be with your servants ⁹ in order to prepare plenty of timber for me. For the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful. ¹⁰ And behold, I will give to the hewers, those who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. ¹¹ And Hiram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah has loved His people, He has made you king over them. ¹² And Hiram said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son blessed with judgment and understanding, who might build a house for Jehovah and a house for his kingdom.

⁷ They gave silver also to the masons and to the carpenters. And they gave meat and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and to the people of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

¹³ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work; ¹⁴ who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts out windows for himself, and puts in a cedar ceiling, and paints it with vermilion. ¹⁵ Do you reign, because you lust to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.