14. He sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 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 transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains,
16. besides Solomon's 3,300 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.