⁸ So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent me; I will do ^[a]what you desire concerning the cedar and cypress timber. ⁹ 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 ^[b]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.”