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Those leaders brought food for King Solomon and all who came to his table, each during his month. They made sure nothing was missing.

They brought barley and straw for the fast horses and the war-wagon horses, where it was needed. Each man did the work he had been given to do.

"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.

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.'

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."

Then Solomon gave Hiram 200,000 baskets of grain as food for those of his house, and 200 jars of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram each year.

Now King Solomon made men work for him from all Israel. There were 30,000 men made to work for him.

Then as the king told them, they cut out large stones of much worth for the house of God to be built on.

The house which King Solomon built for the Lord was as long as thirty long steps, as wide as ten long steps, and eight times taller than a man.

He made windows for the house with beautiful cross-pieces.

The bottom floor was as wide as three steps. The second floor was as wide as three long steps. And the third floor was as wide as four steps. For around the outside of the house he made places for the large wood cross-pieces to rest on. That way they would not need to be put into holes in the walls of the house.

The door for the first floor room was on the right side of the house. They would go up steps to the second floor, and from the second to the third.

He made doors of olive wood for the most holy place. The top and sides of the door had five sides.

For the doorway of the center room he made four-sided side pieces of olive wood

Then he made a room for walking through of large pillars. It was as long as twenty-five long steps, and as wide as fifteen long steps. There was a porch in front with pillars, and an overhead covering in front of them.

He made a room for the throne, the room for judging. It was where he would decide between right and wrong. It was covered with cedar from the floor to the roof.

His own house where he was to live, in the place behind the throne room, was built the same way. Solomon made a house like this room for Pharaoh's daughter also, whom he had married.

Hiram was the son of a woman whose husband had died, from the family of Naphtali. His father was a man of Tyre, who worked with brass. He was filled with wisdom and understanding and much learning for doing any work with brass. So he came to King Solomon, and did all his work.

He made nets of network and turned strings of chain-work for the pieces on top of the pillars. There were seven for one top piece, and seven for the other.

Gourds went around the top of the pool. There were ten of them for every cubit. The gourds were in two rows, and made right in with the pool.