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  • 1 Kings 5:18

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

  • 1 Kings 5:17

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

  • 1 Kings 5:16

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

  • 1 Kings 5:15

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

    King James Version (KJV):
    And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

  • 1 Kings 5:14

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and Adoniram [was] over the levy.

  • 1 Kings 5:13

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

  • 1 Kings 5:12

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

  • 1 Kings 5:11

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

  • 1 Kings 5:10

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

    King James Version (KJV):
    So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his desire.

  • 1 Kings 5:9

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

    King James Version (KJV):
    My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive [them]: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.