1 Kings 5:6

New International Version

⁶“So give orders that cedars^(A) of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”

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1 Chronicles 17:6

New International Version

⁶Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders^[a] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?^(A)”’

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Footnotes

1 Chronicles 17:6 Traditionally judges; also in verse 10

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1 Chronicles 22:4

New International Version

⁴He also provided more cedar logs^(A) than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.

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2 Chronicles 2:3

New International Version

³Solomon sent this message to Hiram^[a]^(A) king of Tyre:

“Send me cedar logs^(B) as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 2:3 Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram; also in verses 11 and 12

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Ezra 3:7

New International Version

Rebuilding the Temple

⁷Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters,^(A) and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs^(B) by sea from Lebanon^(C) to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus^(D) king of Persia.

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