5:10 So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed, ⁴  5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ⁵  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁶  as well as 20,000 baths ⁷  of pure ⁸  olive oil. ⁹  5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. ¹⁰ 

5:13 King Solomon conscripted ¹¹  work crews ¹²  from throughout Israel, 30,000 men in all. 5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of ¹³  the work crews. 5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers ¹⁴  and 80,000 stonecutters ¹⁵  in the hills, 5:16 besides 3,300 ¹⁶  officials who supervised the workers. ¹⁷  5:17 By royal order ¹⁸  they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ¹⁹  along with men from Byblos, ²⁰  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ²¹