12Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.
13Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;
14And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.
15Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;
16In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.
17By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.
18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.
