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1 Kings 5
Solomon asks Hiram king of Tyre for cedar and cypress to build the house of the LORD, in return for wheat and oil. Timber is floated down the coast, and tens of thousands of labourers and stonecutters quarry great costly stones for the foundation.
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- Textually stated
Solomon built the house that David had been promised his son would build.
2 Samuel 7:12–13; 1 Kings 5:5.
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Phoenician craftsmen and materials shaped the Temple.
Hiram of Tyre supplied cedar and cypress and skilled men, and the bronze-worker Hiram came from Tyre (1 Kings 5:6; 7:13–14).