World Messianic Bible British Edition

1 Kings 5:10-18 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

10. So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.

11. Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

12. The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

13. King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

14. He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labour.

15. Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

16. besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who laboured in the work.

17. The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

18. Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.