1 Kings 5:10-18

¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of; ¹¹ And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year. ¹² Now 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. ¹³ Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number; ¹⁴ And 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. ¹⁵ Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains; ¹⁶ In 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. ¹⁷ By 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. ¹⁸ Solomon'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.