1 Kings 5:10-18
10 So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber. 11 aSolomon then gave Hiram 20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and 20 kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year. 12 aNow Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them cut a covenant.
13 And aKing Solomon raised up forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And aAdoniram was over the forced laborers. 15 And aSolomon had 70,000 who carried loads, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains, 16 abesides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work. 17 Then athe king commanded, and they quarried great stones, precious stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. 18 So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and athe Gebalites carved them out, and prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.
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