12. The Lord gave Solomon wisdom as he had promised. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; these two kings made a treaty between themselves.
13. King Solomon forced thirty thousand men of Israel to help in this work.
14. He sent a group of ten thousand men each month to Lebanon. Each group worked in Lebanon one month, then went home for two months. A man named Adoniram was in charge.
15. Solomon forced eighty thousand men to work in the hill country, cutting stone, and he had seventy thousand men to carry the stones.
16. There were also thirty-three hundred men who directed the workers.
17. King Solomon commanded them to cut large blocks of fine stone to be used for the foundation of the Temple.