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2 Samuel 5 11-2 Samuel 5 16
King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace for David.David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that he had elevated his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.These are the names of children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
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Ezra 3:7
So they provided money for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.
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2 Chronicles 2 3
Solomon sent a message to King Huram of Tyre:“ Help me as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs for the construction of his palace.
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1 Kings 5 6
So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”
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2 Chronicles 2 8-2 Chronicles 2 12
Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servantsto supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”King Huram of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon:“ Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king.”Huram also said,“ Worthy of praise is the LORD God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the LORD, as well as a royal palace for himself.
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1 Kings 5 8-1 Kings 5 12
Hiram then sent this message to Solomon:“ I received the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need.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. There I will separate the logs and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed,and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors of wheat as provision for his royal court, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.So the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty.
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1 Chronicles 22 2
David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.
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1 Chronicles 17 1
When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet,“ Look, I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of the LORD’s covenant is under a tent.”
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2 Samuel 7 2
The king said to Nathan the prophet,“ Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.”
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1 Kings 7 1-1 Kings 7 12
Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.He named it“ The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.He also made a throne room, called“ The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet.Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the hall of the palace.
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1 Kings 5 1
( 5: 15) King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place.( Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
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Jeremiah 22:13-15
“‘ Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.He says,“ I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.
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1 Kings 5 18
Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.
