1 Kings 5:10-18

¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber . ¹¹ Solomon then gave Hiram 20,000 e kors of wheat as food for his household , and twenty kors of beaten oil ; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year . ¹² The Lord gave wisdom to Solomon , just as He promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon , and the two of them made a covenant . ¹³ Now King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel ; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 e men . ¹⁴ He sent them to Lebanon , 10,000 e a month in relays ; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home . And Adoniram was over the forced laborers . ¹⁵ Now Solomon had 70,000 e transporters e , and 80,000 e hewers of stone in the mountains , ¹⁶ besides e Solomon's 3,300 e e e chief deputies who were over the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work . ¹⁷ Then the king commanded , and they quarried great stones , costly stones , to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones . ¹⁸ So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house .