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1 Kings 5:2

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And Solomon relayed this message to Hiram:

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And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

KJV

And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

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This verse in 1 Kings 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Solomon sent to Hiram,.... A letter, either by the hand of his ambassadors when they returned, as Kimchi thinks, or by ambassadors Solomon sent on purpose. Josephus (w) appeals to the Tyrian archives for the genuineness of these letters that passed between Hiram and Solomon; and Eupolemus, an Heathen writer (x) has both this which Solomon sent to Hiram, and that which Hiram sent in answer to it, which agree with those in the sacred records: saying: as follows. (w) Antiqu. l. 8. c. 2. sect. 8. (x) Ut Supra. (Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 32, 34.)

This site's exposition

ever a lover of David

on 1 Kings 5:1-2

Hiram opens relations the way ancient kings normally did at a succession, sending an embassy of congratulation rather than testing the new king's strength. The clause naming him ever a lover of David explains what follows: the alliance passes to Solomon as a personal loyalty, not merely a treaty renewed by custom. Josephus and the Greek historian Menander both record a Hiram of Tyre corresponding with Solomon and cite documents once held in the Tyrian archives, outside testimony to a friendship the text states in one line.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Solomon sent to Hiram - Made an interchange of ambassadors and friendly greetings. Josephus tells us that the correspondence between Hiram and Solomon was preserved in the archives of the Tyrians even in his time. But this, like many other assertions of the same author, is worthy of little credit.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֣חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • חִירָ֖םHiram

    chiramH2438 →22 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 2:3

    Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 14:1

      Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters, to build a palace for him.

    • 2 Samuel 5:11

      Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

    • 1 Kings 5:1–11

      Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.

About 1 Kings

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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