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.
18. Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders and the men from Byblos carved the stones and prepared the stones and the logs for building the Temple.