1 Kings 5:9-18
English Standard Version
Chapter 5
9My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household." 10So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, 11while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. 12And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
13King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.
14And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.
15Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,
16besides Solomon 's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
17At the king 's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
18So Solomon 's builders and Hiram 's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
