My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea (A)to the place where you [a]direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away. Then (B)you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.” 10 So [b]Hiram [c]gave Solomon [d]as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber. 11 (C)Solomon then gave Hiram 20,000 [e]kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty [f]kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:9 Lit send
  2. 1 Kings 5:10 Heb Hirom
  3. 1 Kings 5:10 Lit was giving
  4. 1 Kings 5:10 Lit all his desire
  5. 1 Kings 5:11 I.e. One kor equals approx 10 bu
  6. 1 Kings 5:11 I.e. One kor equals approx 10 bu