So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
The verse belongs to the gathering of material to build the house, when Hiram furnished cedar trees and fir trees exactly according to all Solomon desired. That timber still had to be prepared and hauled for the construction of the Temple, and the work was demanding. In return Solomon gave Hiram year by year twenty thousand measures of wheat for food for his household and twenty measures of pure oil. The Lord gave Solomon wisdom as He had promised, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, so that the two made a league together.
To carry out the work Solomon raised a levy of thirty thousand men out of Israel and sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by courses, a month in Lebanon and two months at home, with Adoniram over the levy. Besides that levy there were seventy thousand burden bearers and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains, with three thousand three hundred chief officers over the work. At the king's command great costly hewed stones were brought to lay the foundation, while Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the stonesquarers prepared timber and stones to build the house.
The verse belongs to the gathering of material to build the house, when Hiram furnished cedar trees and fir trees exactly according to all Solomon desired. That timber still had to be prepared and hauled for the construction of the Temple, and the work was demanding. In return Solomon gave Hiram year by year twenty thousand measures of wheat for food for his household and twenty measures of pure oil. The Lord gave Solomon wisdom as He had promised, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, so that the two made a league together.
To carry out the work Solomon raised a levy of thirty thousand men out of Israel and sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by courses, a month in Lebanon and two months at home, with Adoniram over the levy. Besides that levy there were seventy thousand burden bearers and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains, with three thousand three hundred chief officers over the work. At the king's command great costly hewed stones were brought to lay the foundation, while Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the stonesquarers prepared timber and stones to build the house.