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2 Samuel 5:11

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

  • KJV King James Version

    And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

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Cross-references (8)

Passages linked to 2 Samuel 5:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 14:1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
  • 1 Kings 5:1-2 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David. Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
  • 1 Kings 5:18 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
  • 2 Samuel 7:2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
  • 1 Kings 5:8-10 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber. My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.” So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
  • 1 Kings 7:1-12 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row. There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks. All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks. He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them. He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor. His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:4-11 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown. I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem. I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts. So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Jeremiah 22:14-16 who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red. “Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, Zor.

Hebrew, Zor.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For Lebanon, which was famous for its cedars, was…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain Here is, I. David's house built, a royal palace,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Hiram king of Tyre,.... This was father of…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Hiram king of Tyre] He was a…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Sa 5:11. Hiram sent messengers to David, &c. —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Hiram king of Tyre - Now mentioned for the…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Hiram was a magnificent prince, who kept up a…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Hiram . . . sent carpenters, and masons--The influx…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain DAVID’S INTERCOURSE WITH HIRAM — HIS TEMPORAL PROSPERITY, 2Sa_5:11-16.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11–16. David’s Palace and Family
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) Hiram king of Tyre.—This is the same Hiram,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Hiram King of Tyre. At first sight it seems…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is the name of a man. (See: How…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 5:11 Hiram of Tyre: Although the meeting of these…

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