The Meaning of 1 Kings 5:12 Explained

1 Kings 5:12

KJV: And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

YLT: And Jehovah hath given wisdom to Solomon as He spake to him, and there is peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they make a covenant both of them.

Darby: And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league.

ASV: And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

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What is the context of 1 Kings 5:12?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

What does 1 Kings 5:12 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 5:12 mean?

So Yahweh gave wisdom Solomon as He had promised him and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon and made together a treaty the two of them

וַיהוָ֗ה נָתַ֤ן חָכְמָה֙ לִשְׁלֹמֹ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּר־ ל֑וֹ וַיְהִ֣י שָׁלֹ֗ם בֵּ֤ין חִירָם֙ וּבֵ֣ין שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ בְרִ֖ית שְׁנֵיהֶֽם

וַיהוָ֗ה	So Yahweh
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יהוה Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
נָתַ֤ן	gave
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular Root: יָתַן Sense: to give, put, set.
חָכְמָה֙	wisdom
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: חָכְמָה Sense: wisdom.
לִשְׁלֹמֹ֔ה	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.
דִּבֶּר־	He had promised
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular Root: דָּבַר Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
וַיְהִ֣י	and there was
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: אֶהְיֶה Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
שָׁלֹ֗ם	peace
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: שָׁלֹום Sense: completeness, soundness, welfare, peace.
בֵּ֤ין	between
Parse: Preposition Root: בַּיִן Sense: between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between.
חִירָם֙	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.
שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה	Solomon
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: שְׁלֹמֹה Sense: son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs.
וַיִּכְרְת֥וּ	and made together
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: כָּרַת Sense: to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant.
בְרִ֖ית	a treaty
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: בְּרִית Sense: covenant, alliance, pledge.
שְׁנֵיהֶֽם	the two of them
Parse: Number, mdc, third person masculine plural Root: שְׁנַיִם Sense: two.

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