¹⁶ and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa.^(A) You can then take them up to Jerusalem.”

⁸ “Send me also cedar, juniper and algum^[a] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours ⁹ to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent. ¹⁰ I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors^[b] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors^[c] of barley, twenty thousand baths^[d] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.^(A)”

⁶ “So give orders that cedars^(A) of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”

“I have received the message you sent me and will do all you want in providing the cedar and juniper logs. ⁹ My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea^(C), and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food^(D) for my royal household.”