12. The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised him. There were peaceful relations between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
13. King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel—thirty thousand men.
14. He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
15. Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,
16. as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers.