1╦╔ 5:1 ┴ND ╚IRAM KING OF ╘YRE SENT HIS SERVANTS UNTO ╙OLOMON; FOR HE HAD HEARD THAT THEY HAD ANOINTED HIM KING IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER: FOR ╚IRAM WAS EVER A LOVER OF ─AVID.
1╦╔ 5:2 ┴ND ╙OLOMON SENT TO ╚IRAM, SAYING,
1╦╔ 5:3 ╘HOU KNOWEST HOW THAT ─AVID MY FATHER COULD NOT BUILD AN HOUSE UNTO THE NAME OF THE ╠╧╥─ HIS ╟OD FOR THE WARS WHICH WERE ABOUT HIM ON EVERY SIDE, UNTIL THE ╠╧╥─ PUT THEM UNDER THE SOLES OF HIS FEET.
1╦╔ 5:4 ┬UT NOW THE ╠╧╥─ MY ╟OD HATH GIVEN ME REST ON EVERY SIDE, SO THAT THERE IS NEITHER ADVERSARY NOR EVIL OCCURRENT.
1╦╔ 5:5 ┴ND, BEHOLD, ╔ PURPOSE TO BUILD AN HOUSE UNTO THE NAME OF THE ╠╧╥─ MY ╟OD, AS THE ╠╧╥─ SPAKE UNTO ─AVID MY FATHER, SAYING, ╘HY SON, WHOM ╔ WILL SET UPON THY THRONE IN THY ROOM, HE SHALL BUILD AN HOUSE UNTO MY NAME.
1╦╔ 5:6 ╬OW THEREFORE COMMAND THOU THAT THEY HEW ME CEDAR TREES OUT OF ╠EBANON; AND MY SERVANTS SHALL BE WITH THY SERVANTS: AND UNTO THEE WILL ╔ GIVE HIRE FOR THY SERVANTS ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THOU SHALT APPOINT: FOR THOU KNOWEST THAT THERE IS NOT AMONG US ANY THAT CAN SKILL TO HEW TIMBER LIKE UNTO THE ╙IDONIANS.
1╦╔ 5:7 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ╚IRAM HEARD THE WORDS OF ╙OLOMON, THAT HE REJOICED GREATLY, AND SAID, ┬LESSED BE THE ╠╧╥─ THIS DAY, WHICH HATH GIVEN UNTO ─AVID A WISE SON OVER THIS GREAT PEOPLE.
1╦╔ 5:8 ┴ND ╚IRAM SENT TO ╙OLOMON, SAYING, ╔ HAVE CONSIDERED THE THINGS WHICH THOU SENTEST TO ME FOR: AND ╔ WILL DO ALL THY DESIRE CONCERNING TIMBER OF CEDAR, AND CONCERNING TIMBER OF FIR.
1╦╔ 5:9 ═Y SERVANTS SHALL BRING THEM DOWN FROM ╠EBANON UNTO THE SEA: AND ╔ WILL CONVEY THEM BY SEA IN FLOATS 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.
1╦╔ 5:10 ╙O ╚IRAM GAVE ╙OLOMON CEDAR TREES AND FIR TREES ACCORDING TO ALL HIS DESIRE.
1╦╔ 5:11 ┴ND ╙OLOMON GAVE ╚IRAM TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF WHEAT FOR FOOD TO HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND TWENTY MEASURES OF PURE OIL: THUS GAVE ╙OLOMON TO ╚IRAM YEAR BY YEAR.
1╦╔ 5:12 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ GAVE ╙OLOMON WISDOM, AS HE PROMISED HIM: AND THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN ╚IRAM AND ╙OLOMON; AND THEY TWO MADE A LEAGUE TOGETHER.
1╦╔ 5:13 ┴ND KING ╙OLOMON RAISED A LEVY OUT OF ALL ╔SRAEL; AND THE LEVY WAS THIRTY THOUSAND MEN.
1╦╔ 5:14 ┴ND HE SENT THEM TO ╠EBANON, TEN THOUSAND A MONTH BY COURSES: A MONTH THEY WERE IN ╠EBANON, AND TWO MONTHS AT HOME: AND ┴DONIRAM WAS OVER THE LEVY.
1╦╔ 5:15 ┴ND ╙OLOMON HAD THREESCORE AND TEN THOUSAND THAT BARE BURDENS, AND FOURSCORE THOUSAND HEWERS IN THE MOUNTAINS;
1╦╔ 5:16 ┬ESIDE THE CHIEF OF ╙OLOMON'S OFFICERS WHICH WERE OVER THE WORK, THREE THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED, WHICH RULED OVER THE PEOPLE THAT WROUGHT IN THE WORK.
1╦╔ 5:17 ┴ND THE KING COMMANDED, AND THEY BROUGHT GREAT STONES, COSTLY STONES, AND HEWED STONES, TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE.
1╦╔ 5:18 ┴ND ╙OLOMON'S BUILDERS AND ╚IRAM'S BUILDERS DID HEW THEM, AND THE STONESQUARERS: SO THEY PREPARED TIMBER AND STONES TO BUILD THE HOUSE.
