1 Kings 5:16
“These thousands of men employed in the cutting and transportation of the wooden beams and the stones signify the thousands of thousands of assistant spirits sent for our salvation. In the first place, [we see that] God ordered his angels to cut from the rock of the world and to polish and direct accurately the souls o…”
Source: Septuagint
16And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
Preparing…
Preparing…
Preparing…
14And all the nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and ambassadors from all the kings of the earth, as many as heard of his wisdom. a And Solomon took to himself the daughter of Pharaoh to wife, and brought her into the city of David until he had finished the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the wall of Jerusalem. b Then went up Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and took Gezer, and burned it and the Canaanite dwelling in Mergab; and Pharaoh gave them as a dowry to his daughter the wife of Solomon: and Solomon rebuilt Gezer.
15And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Hiram always loved David.
— 1 Kings 5:16 —
17Thou knewest my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
18And now the Lord my God has given me rest round about; there is no one plotting against me, and there is no evil trespass against me.