1 Kings 5:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ But now the Lord has given me rest all around, since I have neither foreign adversaries nor domestic crises. ⁵ So now I’m planning to build a temple dedicated to^[a] the Lord my God, just as the Lord told my father when he said, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne to replace you, will build the Temple dedicated to me.’^{[b] 6} Now therefore please order that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, because you know there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians do.”