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.