9. to provide me with plenty of timber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent.
10. I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.’
11. Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon:‘Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.’
12. And Hiram added:‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the Lord and a palace for himself.
13. ‘I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill,