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Acts 12:20BSB
Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.
Earlier text
My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.” So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted, And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty. And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
Earlier text
My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.” So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted, And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty. And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
Earlier text
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.
In Solomon's day Tyre and Israel lived by a bargain: Hiram supplied cedar and asked in return, "you can meet my needs by providing my household with food," and "There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty" (1 Kings 5:9, 12). Hiram had begun by praising Israel's God: "Blessed be the LORD this day!" (5:7). Luke's note that Tyre and Sidon "asked for peace, because their region depended on the king's country for food" (Acts 12:20) rests on that old dependence, and the LXX of 1 Kings 5:12 shares his word for peace (εἰρήνη, G1515). The tie is quiet: background, not citation. Its value is contrast. Solomon's partner blessed the LORD; Herod's petitioners hail Herod, "This is the voice of a god, not a man!" (12:22), and he is struck down "because Herod did not give glory to God" (12:23). The Christ line runs through what follows: "But the word of God continued to spread and multiply" (12:24), the word that at Antioch was "the good news about the Lord Jesus" (11:20). The king who had put James to death falls; the good news of the Lord Jesus keeps growing, and the glory Herod grasped belongs to God alone.