¹³ King Solomon conscripted laborers^(A) 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^(B) 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^[a] foremen^(C) who supervised the project and directed the workers. ¹⁷ At the king’s command they removed from the quarry^(D) large blocks of high-grade stone^(E) to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple. ¹⁸ The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram^(F) and workers from Byblos^(G) cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.