13 King Solomon drafted men from all Israel, totaling thirty thousand men.
14 He sent them to Lebanon in turns, ten thousand a month, with each spending a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram administered the labor force.
15 Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,
16 not counting the chief of Solomon’s officers who were over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people who did the work.
17 At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
18 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders, along with the stonemasons, cut them and prepared timber and stones to build the house.