Covenant with Huram King of Tyre

¹¹ Then Huram king of Tyre said in a letter ^[a]sent to Solomon: “^(A)Because Yahweh loves His people, He has given you to be king over them.” ¹² Then Huram said, “Blessed be ^(B)Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, knowledgeable in insight and understanding, ^(C)who will build a house for Yahweh and a ^[b]royal palace for himself.

¹³ “So now, I am sending Huram-abi, a wise man, who is knowledgeable in understanding, ^14 (D)the son of a ^[c]Danite woman and ^[d]a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, linen, and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to devise any design which may be given to him, to work with your wise men and with the wise men of my lord David your father. ¹⁵ So now, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of ^(E)which he has spoken. ^16 (F)And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem.”

¹⁷ Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners who were in the land of Israel, ^(G)following the ^[e]census which his father David had ^[f]taken; and 153,600 were found. ^18 (H)And he made 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 as hewers of stone in the mountains and 3,600 directors to make the people work.