1 Kings 5:2

New Life Version

Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon sent this message to Hiram:

Hebrew Names Version
Shlomo sent to Hiram, saying,

King James Version
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

English Standard Version
And Solomon sent word to Hiram,

New Century Version
Solomon sent this message back to King Hiram:

New English Translation
Solomon then sent this message to Hiram:

Amplified Bible
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also Salomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
And Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

Contemporary English Version
Solomon sent a message back to Hiram:

Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo's provisions for one day consisted of 150 bushels of fine flour, 310 bushels of meal,

Darby Translation
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
This is what Solomon said to King Hiram:

George Lamsa Translation
And Hiram sent to Solomon and blessed him. And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Good News Translation
Solomon sent back this message to Hiram:

Lexham English Bible
Then Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Literal Translation
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Salomon sent vnto Hiram, sayenge:

American Standard Version
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;

King James Version (1611)
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,

English Revised Version
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
And Solomon relayed this message to Hiram:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli also Salomon sente to Hiram,

Young's Literal Translation
and Solomon sendeth unto Hiram, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

World English Bible
Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

New King James Version
Then Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

New Living Translation
Then Solomon sent this message back to Hiram:

New Revised Standard
Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Solomon sent unto Hiram, saying: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

Revised Standard Version
And Solomon sent word to Hiram,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ Now Hiram the king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had set him apart to be king in place of his father. Hiram had always loved David. ² Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying, ³ "You know that my father David was not able to build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars all around him. The Lord had not yet put those who hated him under his feet. ⁴ But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is no trouble or anything bad happening. ⁵ So I plan to build a house for the name of the Lord my God. Because the Lord said to my father David, ‘I will set your son on your throne in your place. He will build the house for My name.' ⁶ So tell them to cut cedar trees of Lebanon for me. My servants will join yours. And I will give you whatever you say to pay your servants. For you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut trees like the Sidonians." ⁷ When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he was filled with joy and said, "Thanks be to the Lord today. He has given to David a wise son to rule this great people." ⁸ Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the news you have sent me. I will do what you want with the cedar and cypress trees. ⁹ My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them ready to go on the sea to the place you choose. I will have them broken up there, and you can carry them away. Then you will do what I wish by giving food to those of my house."

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2 Chronicles 2:3

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:11 - Hiram 1 Kings 9:13 - my brother

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
And God made man in His own likeness. In the likeness of God He made him. He made both male and female.

Genesis 2:15
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work the ground and care for it.

Genesis 2:23
The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

Malachi 2:15
Has not the Lord made them one in flesh and spirit? And what does He desire but God-like children? Be careful then in your spirit, and stay faithful to the wife you married when you were young.

Matthew 19:4
He said to them, "Have you not read that He Who made them in the first place made them man and woman?

Mark 10:6
From the beginning of the world, God made them man and woman.

Acts 17:26
He made from one blood all nations who live on the earth. He set the times and places where they should live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon sent to Hiram,.... A letter, either by the hand of his ambassadors when they returned, as Kimchi thinks, or by ambassadors Solomon sent on purpose. Josephus w appeals to the Tyrian archives for the genuineness of these letters that passed between Hiram and Solomon; and Eupolemus, an Heathen writer x has both this which Solomon sent to Hiram, and that which Hiram sent in answer to it, which agree with those in the sacred records:

saying: as follows.

w Antiqu. l. 8. c. 2. sect. 8. x Ut Supra. (Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 32, 34.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 5:2. Solomon sent to Hiram — Made an interchange of ambassadors and friendly greetings. Josephus tells us that the correspondence between Hiram and Solomon was preserved in the archives of the Tyrians even in his time. But this, like many other assertions of the same author, is worthy of little credit.