1Ki 5:9 | NETfull | STEP | My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. There I will separate the logs and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”

1 Kings 5:9

9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ^{▼▼ Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.} There I will separate the logs ^{▼▼ Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.} and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ^{▼▼ Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”}