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My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate.[a] There I will separate the logs[b] and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:9 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.
  2. 1 Kings 5:9 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.
  3. 1 Kings 5:9 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

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