5. And the house which I must build is great, for great is our God above all gods.
6. But who is so powerful as to build him a house, seeing the heavens and heavens of the heavens cannot contain him? Who am I then that I should build him a house, except to burn incense before him?
7. Send me now, therefore, a wise man who knows how to work in gold and in silver and in brass and in iron and in purple and crimson and blue and that knows how to engrave figures with the craftsmen that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David, my father, provided.
8. Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and pine trees, out of Lebanon, for I know that thy slaves are skillful at cutting timber in Lebanon, and, behold, my slaves shall be with thy slaves
9. to prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
10. And, behold, I will give to thy slaves, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of oil.
11. Then Hiram, the king of Tyre, answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord has loved his people, he has placed thee as king over them.
12. Hiram said, moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son with knowledge, good sense and understanding, that he might build a house for the Lord and a house for his kingdom.