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New King James Version

1 Kings 5:10

Then Hiram gave Solomon cedar and cypress logs according to all his desire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cedar;   Contracts;   Diplomacy;   Temple;   Treaty;   Tyre;   Thompson Chain Reference - Barter;   Business Life;   Contracts;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cedar, the;   Covenants;   Temple, the First;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fir;   Hiram or Huram;   Tyre or Tyrus;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lebanon;   Phoenicia;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ezekiel, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Fir;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Hiram;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Forest;   Hiram;   Lebanon;   Phoenicia;   Plants in the Bible;   Wages;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   East, Children of the;   Fir;   Hiram;   Israel;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fir, Fir-Tree,;   Hiram ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Solomon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Fir;   Hi'ram,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Fir Tree;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cedar;   Fir;   Hiram;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alliances;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Augury;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
Hebrew Names Version
So Hiram gave Shlomo timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
King James Version
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
English Standard Version
So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,
New Century Version
So Hiram gave Solomon as much cedar and pine as he wanted.
New English Translation
So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed,
Amplified Bible
So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar and cypress timber he desired,
New American Standard Bible
So Hiram gave Solomon all that he wished of the cedar and juniper timber.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Hiram gaue Salomon cedar trees and firre trees, euen his full desire.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber.
Contemporary English Version
Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar and pine logs he needed.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of the people from the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Darby Translation
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees [according to] all his desire.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar and fir logs that he wanted.
George Lamsa Translation
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to his desire.
Good News Translation
So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the cedar and pine logs that he wanted,
Lexham English Bible
So Hiram was giving to Solomon the cedar timbers and the cypress timbers, everything he needed.
Literal Translation
And Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, all his desire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Hira gaue Salomon Ceders and Pyne trees acordinge to all his desyre.
American Standard Version
So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
Bible in Basic English
So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Aud so Hiram gaue Solomon Cedar trees and firre trees according to all his desyre.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
King James Version (1611)
So Hiram gaue Solomon Cedar trees, and Firre trees, according to all his desire.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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English Revised Version
So Hirah gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
Berean Standard Bible
So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Hiram yaf to Salomon `trees of cedres, and `trees of beechis, bi al his wille;
Young's Literal Translation
And Hiram is giving to Solomon cedar-trees, and fir-trees, all his desire,
Update Bible Version
So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his desire.
World English Bible
So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
New Living Translation
So Hiram supplied as much cedar and cypress timber as Solomon desired.
New Life Bible
So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he wanted of the cedar and cypress trees.
New Revised Standard
So Hiram supplied Solomon's every need for timber of cedar and cypress.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Hiram began giving unto Solomon timber of cedar, and timber of fir, even all his desire,
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to all his desire.
Revised Standard Version
So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,
THE MESSAGE
In this way Hiram supplied all the cedar and cypress timber that Solomon wanted. In his turn, Solomon gave Hiram 125,000 bushels of wheat and 115,000 gallons of virgin olive oil. He did this every year. And God , for his part, gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised. The healthy peace between Hiram and Solomon was formalized by a treaty.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber.

Contextual Overview

10 Then Hiram gave Solomon cedar and cypress logs according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty [fn] kors of pressed oil. Thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year. 12 So the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together. 13 Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the labor force. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains, 16 besides three thousand three hundred [fn] from the chiefs of Solomon's deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work. 17 And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple. [fn] 18 So Solomon's builders, Hiram's builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 5:1 - Hiram 1 Chronicles 14:1 - and timber

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Hiram, gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees,.... Ordered his servants to cut them down from Lebanon, and sent them to him in floats, which he received:

[according to] all his desire; he had as many as he requested, and what he wanted.


 
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