1 Kings 5:3

Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house [Hiram could not fail to know this, as his relations with David had been close and intimate. Not only had he "sent cedar trees and carpenters and masons" to build David's house ( 2 Samuel 5:11 ), but "they of Tyro brought much cedar wood to David" ( 1 Chronicles 22:4 ) for the house of the Lord] unto the name of the Lord [ i.e; to be dedicated to the Lord as His shrine and habitation (cf. Deuteronomy 12:5 , Deuteronomy 12:11 ; and Deuteronomy 8:18 , Deuteronomy 8:19 , Deuteronomy 8:20 , etc.)] for the wars [Heb; war. As we have singular noun and plural verb, Ewald, Rawlinson, al. assume that war stands for adversaries, as the next clause seems to imply. Bähr and Keil, however, with greater reason, interpret, "for the war with which they surrounded him;" a construction ( סָבַב with double accusative) which is justified by Psalms 109:3 ] until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet [until, i.e; He trampled them down. The same image is found in some of David's psalms, e.g; Psalms 7:5 ; Psalms 60:12 ; cf. Psalms 8:6 ; Psalms 91:13 ; Isaiah 63:3 ; Romans 16:20 ; Ephesians 1:22 ; Hebrews 2:8 .]