24. So Hiram kept providing Solomon with cedar and cypress timber, as much as he desired,
25. and Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 measures of wheat for food for his household and 20 measures of beaten oil. Thus Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.
26. Adonai gave Solomon wisdom as He promised him, so there was shalom between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them cut a covenant.
27. King Solomon also imposed forced laborers from all Israel—the levy was 30,000 men.
28. He sent them to Lebanon, in shifts of 10,000 a month: they would stay a month in Lebanon, then two months at home. Adoniram was over the forced labor.
29. Solomon had 70,000 porters, and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
30. besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work—3,300 who supervised the people who were doing the work.
31. Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the House with cut stones.
32. So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders along with the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the House.