1 Kings 5:13-18

Alliance with King Hiram

¹³Now King Solomon conscripted forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered thirty thousand men. ¹⁴Then he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they were in Lebanon for a month, and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced laborers. ¹⁵Now Solomon had seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand stonemasons in the mountains, ¹⁶besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the project and ruled over the people who were doing the work. ¹⁷Then the king issued orders, and they quarried large stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. ¹⁸So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut the stones, and they prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.