The Meaning of 1 Kings 5:10 Explained

1 Kings 5:10

KJV: So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.

YLT: And Hiram is giving to Solomon cedar-trees, and fir-trees, all his desire,

Darby: So Hiram gave Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees according to all his desire.

ASV: So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

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What is the context of 1 Kings 5:10?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his desire.

What does 1 Kings 5:10 Mean?

Context Summary

1 Kings 5:7-18 - Preparations For The Great Task

It was good for Hiram and his Tyrians to be associated with the servants of Solomon. Together they hewed immense blocks of stone, some of which were thirty feet in length and six feet in breadth, and which still form foundations on the ancient Temple site. Together they hewed down and fashioned the cedar and fir trees on the slopes of Lebanon. May we not learn from this partnership that Gentiles are to be associated with Jews in that one holy Temple, which through the ages is growing into a habitation of God by His Spirit? Ephesians 2:21-22. In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision nor uncircumcision.

The treaty between the two kingdoms was eminently wise, because they differed so widely-the one being pastoral, the other commercial. It was wise for Peter and John to enter into close friendship, and together ascend the steps to the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, Acts 3:1-3. Be content to be a hewer on the mountains, shaping rough blocks of granite, but, do something toward building the Temple of God, which arises slowly amid the wreck of all human structures.

1 Kings 5:1-18 - Breaking Three Commandments

From a worldly point of view Naboth might have done a good stroke of business by selling his estate to. Ahab. A royal price and assured favor might have been his-but he had a conscience! Above the persuasive tones of the monarch's offer sounded the voice of God: "The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine." See Leviticus 25:23; Numbers 36:7; Ezekiel 46:18.

Ahab knew perfectly well that Jezebel could not give him the property of another except by foul means, but he took pains not to inquire. Though the direct orders for Naboth's death did not come from him, yet, by his silence, he was an accomplice and an accessory; and divine justice penetrates all such specious excuses. God holds us responsible for wrongs which we do not arrest, though we have the power. The crime was blacker because of the pretext of religion, as suggested by a fast. See also 2 Kings 9:26. The blood of murdered innocence cries to God, and his requital, though delayed, is inevitable. See Revelation 6:9-10. [source]

Chapter Summary: 1 Kings 5

¹ Hiram, sending to congratulate Solomon, is desired to furnish him with timber
⁷ Hiram, blessing God for Solomon, furnishes him with trees
¹³ The number of Solomon's workmen and laborers

What do the individual words in 1 Kings 5:10 mean?

And Hiram gave Solomon trees cedar and logs cypress [according to] all his desire

וַיְהִ֨י חִיר֜וֹם נֹתֵ֣ן לִשְׁלֹמֹ֗ה עֲצֵ֧י אֲרָזִ֛ים וַעֲצֵ֥י בְרוֹשִׁ֖ים כָּל־ חֶפְצֽוֹ

חִיר֜וֹם	Hiram
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: חִירֹום Sense: the king of Tyre who sent workmen and materials to Jerusalem to build both the palace for David and the temple for Solomon.
נֹתֵ֣ן	gave
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular Root: יָתַן Sense: to give, put, set.
לִשְׁלֹמֹ֗ה	Solomon
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: שְׁלֹמֹה Sense: son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs.
עֲצֵ֧י	trees
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct Root: עֵץ Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
אֲרָזִ֛ים	cedar
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: אֶרֶז Sense: cedar.
וַעֲצֵ֥י	and logs
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct Root: עֵץ Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
בְרוֹשִׁ֖ים	cypress
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: בְּרֹושׁ Sense: cypress, fir, juniper, pine.
כָּל־	[according to] all
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: כֹּל Sense: all, the whole.
חֶפְצֽוֹ	his desire
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular Root: חֵפֶץ Sense: delight, pleasure.

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