10. So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar and pinewood that he wanted.
11. In return, Solomon gave an annual gift to Hiram of twenty thousand kors of wheat to eat, and twenty thousand kors of pure oil for his palace use.
12. Now the Lord made Solomon wise, just as he had promised. Solomon and Hiram made a covenant and had peace.
13. King Solomon called up a work gang of thirty thousand workers from all over Israel.
14. He sent ten thousand to work in Lebanon each month. Then they would spend two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the work gang.
15. Solomon had 70,000 laborers and 80,000 stonecutters in the highlands.
16. This doesn’t include Solomon’s 3,300 supervisors in charge of the work, who had oversight over the laborers.
17. At the king’s command, they quarried huge stones of the finest quality in order to lay the temple’s foundation with carefully cut stone.
18. The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram, along with those of Byblos, prepared the timber and the stones for the construction of the temple.