In this video listen to 1 Kings Chapter 5, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In 1 Kings Chapter 5 Solomon makes a deal with Hiram of Tyre. Tyre is a part of Phonecia. The Phonecians worshipped other gods, and later produced the terrible Jezebel. Phoenicia is also supposed to have produced the first or oldest alphabet. Interestingly the Canaanite alphabet, phonecian alphabet and the paleo-hebrew alphabet are basically the same. In other words, the oldest alphabet in the world is the biblical one, although Dr Douglas Petrovich is now a leading expert in an even older version of Hebrew coming out of Egypt, which may be older than the Phonecian.

Solomon’s deal with HIram was for materials to build a temple for God, and a palace for himself and for the Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife. Solomon assumed in all o othis, that h ...