6 And now command that they cut for me cedars* from Lebʹa·non;+ and my servants themselves will prove to be with your servants, and the wages of your servants I shall give to you according to all that you may say, for you yourself well know that there is among us no one knowing how to cut trees like the Si·doʹni·ans.”+

3 Further, Solʹo·mon sent to Hiʹram*+ the king of Tyre, saying: “Just as you dealt with David+ my father and you kept sending him cedarwood to build himself a house in which to dwell,—