1 Kings 5:8-18

8So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent me; I will do 1what you desire concerning the cedar and cypress timber. 9My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea 2to the place where you 3direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away. Then 4you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.” 10So 5Hiram 6gave Solomon 7as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber. 118Solomon then gave Hiram 20,000 9kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty 10kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year. 1211The Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He 12promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a covenant.

13Now 13King Solomon 14levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers 15numbered 30,000 men. 14He sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in relays; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And 16Adoniram was over the forced laborers. 15Now 17Solomon had 70,000 18transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains, 1619besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the 20project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work. 17Then 21the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. 18So Solomon’s builders and 22Hiram’s builders and 23the Gebalites 24cut them, and prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.