1 Kings 5:10-18

¹⁰ In this way Hiram supplied all the cedar and cypress timber that Solomon wanted. ¹¹ In his turn, Solomon gave Hiram 125,000 bushels of wheat and 115,000 gallons of virgin olive oil. He did this every year. ¹² And God, for his part, gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised. The healthy peace between Hiram and Solomon was formalized by a treaty. ¹³ King Solomon raised a workforce of 30,000 men from all over Israel. ¹⁴ He sent them in shifts of 10,000 each month to the Lebanon forest; they would work a month in Lebanon and then be at home two months. Adoniram was in charge of the work crew. ¹⁵ Solomon also had 70,000 unskilled workers and another 80,000 stonecutters up in the hills ¹⁶ - plus 3,300 foremen managing the project and supervising the work crews. ¹⁷ Following the king's orders, they quarried huge blocks of the best stone - dressed stone for the foundation of The Temple. ¹⁸ Solomon and Hiram's construction workers, assisted by the men of Gebal, cut and prepared the timber and stone for building The Temple.