1 Kings 5
1 and to send: depart Hiram king Tyre [obj] servant/slave his to(wards) Solomon for to hear: hear for [obj] him to anoint to/for king underneath: instead father his for to love: lover to be Hiram to/for David all [the] day: always
When Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king to succeed his father, he sent ambassadors to Solomon because Hiram had always been David's friend.
2 and to send: depart Solomon to(wards) Hiram to/for to say
So Solomon sent this message back to Hiram,
3 you(m. s.) to know [obj] David father my for not be able to/for to build house: home to/for name LORD God his from face: because [the] battle which to turn: surround him till to give: put LORD [obj] them underneath: under palm: sole (foot my *QK)
“As you know, my father David was not able to build a Temple to honor the Lord his God because of the wars fought against him from every direction, until the Lord had conquered his enemies.
4 and now to rest LORD God my to/for me from around: side nothing Satan and nothing chance bad: evil
But now the Lord my God has given me peace all around—no enemies, no bad things happening.
5 and look! I to say to/for to build house: home to/for name LORD God my like/as as which to speak: speak LORD to(wards) David father my to/for to say son: child your which to give: put underneath: instead you upon throne your he/she/it to build [the] house: home to/for name my
So I plan to build a Temple to honor the Lord my God, as the Lord told my father David. He said to him, ‘Your son whom I will place on your throne to succeed you will build the Temple to honor me.’
6 and now to command and to cut: cut to/for me cedar from [the] Lebanon and servant/slave my to be with servant/slave your and wages servant/slave your to give: pay to/for you like/as all which to say for you(m. s.) to know for nothing in/on/with us man: anyone to know to/for to cut: cut tree: wood like/as Sidonian
So please order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut down for me. My workers will assist your workers, and I will pay your workers at the rate that you decide, for you know that we don't have anyone who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
7 and to be like/as to hear: hear Hiram [obj] word Solomon and to rejoice much and to say to bless LORD [the] day: today which to give: give to/for David son: child wise upon [the] people [the] many [the] this
When Hiram heard Solomon's message, he was very happy and said, “Praise the Lord today, for he has given David a wise son to lead this great nation!”
8 and to send: depart Hiram to(wards) Solomon to/for to say to hear: hear [obj] which to send: depart to(wards) me I to make: do [obj] all pleasure your in/on/with tree: wood cedar and in/on/with tree: wood cypress
Hiram sent this reply to Solomon: “Thank you for your message. As for the cedar and cypress timber, I will do everything you want.
9 servant/slave my to go down from [the] Lebanon sea [to] and I to set: make them raft in/on/with sea till [the] place which to send: depart to(wards) me and to shatter them there and you(m. s.) to lift: raise and you(m. s.) to make: do [obj] pleasure my to/for to give: give food house: household my
My workers will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will have them floated in rafts by sea to wherever you decide. I will have the rafts broken apart there, and you can take the logs away. In return I would like you to provide food for my household.”
10 and to be Hiram to give: give to/for Solomon tree: wood cedar and tree: wood cypress all pleasure his
So Hiram provided Solomon with as much cedar and cypress timber that he wanted,
11 and Solomon to give: give to/for Hiram twenty thousand kor wheat food to/for house: household his and twenty kor oil beaten thus to give: give Solomon to/for Hiram year in/on/with year
Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat for food and 20,000 cors of olive oil for his household. Solomon provided this to Hiram every year.
12 and LORD to give: give wisdom to/for Solomon like/as as which to speak: promise to/for him and to be peace between Hiram and between Solomon and to cut: make(covenant) covenant two their
The Lord gave Solomon wisdom just as he had promised him. Hiram and Solomon had a good relationship and they made a peace treaty with each other.
13 and to ascend: establish [the] king Solomon taskworker from all Israel and to be [the] taskworker thirty thousand man
King Solomon drafted a labor force of 30,000 from all of Israel.
14 and to send: depart them Lebanon [to] ten thousand in/on/with month change month to be in/on/with Lebanon two month in/on/with house: home his and Adoniram upon [the] taskworker
He sent them in shifts of 10,000 each month to Lebanon, so that they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home, Adoniram was in charge of the labor force.
15 and to be to/for Solomon seventy thousand to lift: bearing(armour) burden and eighty thousand to hew in/on/with mountain: hill country
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,
16 to/for alone from ruler [the] to stand to/for Solomon which upon [the] work three thousand and three hundred [the] to rule in/on/with people [the] to make: do in/on/with work
as well as 3,300 foremen he placed in charge of the workers.
17 and to command [the] king and to set out stone great: large stone precious to/for to found [the] house: home stone cutting
Following the king's orders, they quarried large blocks of stone that were expensive to produce, and laid these dressed stones as the foundation for the Temple.
18 and to hew to build Solomon and to build Hiram and [the] Gebalite and to establish: prepare [the] tree: wood and [the] stone to/for to build [the] house: home
So Solomon's and Hiram's builders, together with the Gebalites, cut the stone. They prepared the timber and stone to build the Temple.
