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2 Samuel 5 11-2 Samuel 5 16
King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David; he also sent cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.Then David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.After he arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.These are the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
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Ezra 3:7
They gave money to the stonecutters and artisans, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, according to the authorization given them by King Cyrus of Persia.
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2 Chronicles 2 3
Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram of Tyre: Do for me what you did for my father David. You sent him cedars to build him a house to live in.
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1 Kings 5 6
“ Therefore, command that cedars from Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants’ wages according to whatever you say, for you know that not a man among us knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
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2 Chronicles 2 8-2 Chronicles 2 12
Also, send me cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut the trees of Lebanon. Note that my servants will be with your servantsto prepare logs for me in abundance because the temple I am building will be great and wondrous.I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the trees, one hundred twenty thousand bushels of wheat flour, one hundred twenty thousand bushels of barley, one hundred twenty thousand gallons of wine, and one hundred twenty thousand gallons of oil.Then King Hiram of Tyre wrote a letter and sent it to Solomon: Because the LORD loves his people, he set you over them as king.Hiram also said: Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He gave King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
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1 Kings 5 8-1 Kings 5 12
Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying,“ I have heard your message; I will do everything you want regarding the cedar and cypress timber.My servants will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place you indicate. I will break them apart there, and you can take them away. You then can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,and Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred twenty thousand bushels of wheat as food for his household and one hundred twenty thousand gallons of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
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1 Chronicles 22 2
So David gave orders to gather the resident aliens that were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to cut finished stones for building God’s house.
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1 Chronicles 17 1
When David had settled into his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan,“ Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the LORD’s covenant is under tent curtains.”
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2 Samuel 7 2
the king said to the prophet Nathan,“ Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.”
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1 Kings 7 1-1 Kings 7 12
Solomon completed his entire palace complex after thirteen years of construction.He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was one hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.It was paneled above with cedar at the top of the chambers that rested on forty-five pillars, fifteen per row.There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.He made the hall of pillars seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars was in front of them.He made the Hall of the Throne where he would judge— the Hall of Judgment. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.Solomon’s own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife.All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard.The foundation was made of large, costly stones twelve and fifteen feet long.Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.
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1 Kings 5 1
King Hiram of Tyre sent his emissaries to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place, for Hiram had always been friends with David.
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Jeremiah 22:13-15
Woe for the one who builds his palace through unrighteousness, his upstairs rooms through injustice, who makes his neighbor serve without pay and will not give him his wages,who says,“ I will build myself a massive palace, with spacious upstairs rooms.” He will cut windows in it, and it will be paneled with cedar and painted bright red.Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.
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1 Kings 5 18
So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple’s construction.
