5:1 泰爾王希蘭，平素愛大衛；他聽見以色列人膏所羅門，接續他父親作王，就差遣臣僕來見他。
5:2 所羅門也差遣人去見希蘭，說：
5:3 「你知道我父親大衛因四圍的爭戰，不能為耶和華─他上帝的名建殿，直等到耶和華使仇敵都服在他腳下。
5:4 現在耶和華─我的上帝使我四圍平安，沒有仇敵，沒有災禍。
5:5 我定意要為耶和華─我上帝的名建殿，是照耶和華應許我父親大衛的話說：『我必使你兒子接續你坐你的位，他必為我的名建殿。』
5:6 所以求你吩咐你的僕人在黎巴嫩為我砍伐香柏木，我的僕人也必幫助他們，我必照你所定的，給你僕人的工價；因為你知道，在我們中間沒有人像西頓人善於砍伐樹木。」
5:7 希蘭聽見所羅門的話，就甚喜悅，說：「今日應當稱頌耶和華；因他賜給大衛一個有智慧的兒子，治理這眾多的民。」
5:8 希蘭打發人去見所羅門，說：「你差遣人向我所提的那事，我都聽見了；論到香柏木和松木，我必照你的心願而行。
5:9 我的僕人必將這木料從黎巴嫩運到海裡，紮成筏子，浮海運到你所指定我的地方，在那裡拆開，你就可以收取；你也要成全我的心願，將食物給我的家。」
5:10 於是希蘭照著所羅門所要的，給他香柏木和松木；
5:11 所羅門給希蘭麥子二萬歌珥，清油二十歌珥，作他家的食物。所羅門每年都是這樣給希蘭。
5:12 耶和華照著所應許的賜智慧給所羅門。希蘭與所羅門和好，彼此立約。
5:13 所羅門王從以色列人中挑取服苦的人共有三萬，
5:14 派他們輪流每月一萬人上黎巴嫩去；一個月在黎巴嫩，兩個月在家裡。亞多尼蘭掌管他們。
5:15 所羅門用七萬扛抬的，八萬在山上鑿石頭的。
5:16 此外，所羅門用三千三百督工的，監管工人。
5:17 王下令，人就鑿出又大又寶貴的石頭來，用以立殿的根基。
5:18 所羅門的匠人和希蘭的匠人，並迦巴勒人，都將石頭鑿好，預備木料和石頭建殿。
[a]When Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king to succeed his father David, he sent his envoys to Solomon, because he had always been on friendly terms with David. 2 Solomon sent back this message to Hiram:
3 “You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the Lord his God until the Lord put his enemies under his feet. 4 But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or disaster. 5 I intend, therefore, to build a temple for the Name of the Lord my God, as the Lord told my father David, when he said, ‘Your son whom I will put on the throne in your place will build the temple for my Name.’
6 “So give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”
7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was greatly pleased and said, “Praise be to the Lord today, for he has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
8 So Hiram sent word to Solomon:
“I have received the message you sent me and will do all you want in providing the cedar and juniper logs. 9 My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food for my royal household.”
10 In this way Hiram kept Solomon supplied with all the cedar and juniper logs he wanted, 11 and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors[b] of wheat as food for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths[c][d] of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year. 12 The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised him. There were peaceful relations between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
13 King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel—thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[e] foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers. 17 At the king’s command they removed from the quarry large blocks of high-grade stone to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple. 18 The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and workers from Byblos cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.
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泰爾（推羅）是古代腓尼基人的主要海港之一，泰爾王希蘭用黎巴嫩的香柏木和大衛王交換食物，讓上帝的殿建築材料沒有缺乏。從經文的描述讓我們知道：香柏木不僅不怕水，更不會被海水的鹽分影響，可以用海水來運送！當然不僅如此，香柏木事不會被白蟻和蛀蟲所破壞，是一種恆久性的建材呢！
除了木材還需要石材，所羅門也很有智慧的安排百姓服勞，正如經文所寫：「所羅門王從以色列人中挑取服苦的人共有三萬，派他們輪流每月一萬人上黎巴嫩去；一個月在黎巴嫩，兩個月在家裡。亞多尼蘭掌管他們。所羅門用七萬扛抬的，八萬在山上鑿石頭的。此外，所羅門用三千三百督工的，監管工人。王下令，人就鑿出又大又寶貴的石頭來，用以立殿的根基。所羅門的匠人和希蘭的匠人，並迦巴勒人，都將石頭鑿好，預備木料和石頭建殿。」
主耶穌也曾經教導門徒：「你們哪一個要蓋一座樓，不先坐下算計花費，能蓋成不能呢？恐怕安了地基，不能成功，看見的人都笑話他，說：『這個人開了工，卻不能完工。』」（路加福音14:28-30）
這也讓我們看見要做上帝的工，必須是精明有智慧的人。而上帝也是將聰明和智慧賜給敬畏祂的人，而真正敬畏上帝的人是心中有聖靈的人，因著聖靈工作人會靈明而不是思想僵化、自以為是！所以，我們要感謝上帝，祂要讓我們如所羅門王一般有智慧！
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