1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for…
2So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in…
3Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of…
4Behold, I am about to build a house…
5The house that I am building will be…
6But who is able to build a house…
7Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving…
8Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs…
9to prepare for me timber in abundance, because…
10I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000…
11Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter…
12And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the…
13So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a…
14He is the son of a woman from…
15Now let my lord send to his servants…
16We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many…
17Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the…
18Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters…
