1 Kings 5:9-11
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[9] My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. [10] So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. [11] Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageLebanon and Tyre were Phoenician coastal regions north of Israel, renowned for cedar forests and skilled craftsmen; Gebal (Byblos) was a Phoenician city associated with timber work. The Great Sea is the Mediterranean, by which Hiram’s servants floated Lebanese logs southward for Solomon’s temple project.
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1 Kings 5:9-11 mentions Gebal, Great Sea, Lebanon and Tyre.
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