⁸ So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you sent me; I will do everything you wish concerning the cedar and juniper timber.

⁹ My servants will bring the timbers down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will have them made into rafts to go by sea ^(A)to the place where you ^[a]direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you will carry them away. Then ^(B)you shall do what I wish, by giving food to my household.”