I Kings 5:6-12
This is a simple story of a deal between Solomon and Hiram to provide wood for the temple that was to be built. Solomon requested Cedar. Hiram modified the order to include Fir as well as Cedar.
Solomon recognized that the Sidonians were much better hewers of wood than his people. This would indicate that the product to be delivered was more than just cut lumber.
Transportation would be to float the timber on rafts to a point that would be the closest to Jerusalem. At that unloading point payment would be made.
The payment was 20,000 measures of wheat and 20 measures of oil. A measure of grain was roughly what a man could hold in both hands. A measure of wheat would make a small loaf of bread.
What is somewhat puzzling at this point is the transaction itself. It sounds like this was a multi-year project. There is some indication of a measure of wheat being the pay for one man for one day. Overall the point is that there was an orderly plan and that there was a friendly arrangement to exchange what each party had for what the other party needed.
In use of the Bible for application to current times we should meditate on even such mundane things as the way the wood was secured for the temple. Everything in the Bible has a purpose. It may be too that John 6, the feeding of the five thousand, has a spiritual meaning connection to the timber contract fulfillment.
David Sneed
This is a simple story of a deal between Solomon and Hiram to provide wood for the temple that was to be built. Solomon requested Cedar. Hiram modified the order to include Fir as well as Cedar.
Solomon recognized that the Sidonians were much better hewers of wood than his people. This would indicate that the product to be delivered was more than just cut lumber.
Transportation would be to float the timber on rafts to a point that would be the closest to Jerusalem. At that unloading point payment would be made.
The payment was 20,000 measures of wheat and 20 measures of oil. A measure of grain was roughly what a man could hold in both hands. A measure of wheat would make a small loaf of bread.
What is somewhat puzzling at this point is the transaction itself. It sounds like this was a multi-year project. There is some indication of a measure of wheat being the pay for one man for one day. Overall the point is that there was an orderly plan and that there was a friendly arrangement to exchange what each party had for what the other party needed.
In use of the Bible for application to current times we should meditate on even such mundane things as the way the wood was secured for the temple. Everything in the Bible has a purpose. It may be too that John 6, the feeding of the five thousand, has a spiritual meaning connection to the timber contract fulfillment.
David Sneed
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