2 Samuel 5:11

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Summary

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

Hiram

1 Kings 5:1

1 Chronicles 14:1

They built

Bible References

Hiram

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend of David.

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons and carpenters, to build a house for him.

They built

that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.”

Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;

Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house
With spacious upper rooms,
And cut out its windows,

Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’