1 Kings 5:12-18

English Standard Version

¹² And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, ^(A)as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

¹³ King Solomon drafted ^(B)forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. ¹⁴ And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. ^(C)Adoniram was in charge of the draft. ¹⁵ Solomon also ^(D)had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, ¹⁶ besides Solomon's 3,300 ^(E)chief officers who were over the work, ^(F)who had charge of the people who carried on the work. ¹⁷ At the king's command ^(G)they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. ¹⁸ So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and ^(H)the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.