Plans for Building the Temple

¹Now Solomon wanted to build a temple for the name of the Lord and a royal house for his kingship.[#Dt 12:5; 1Ki 5:5]

²And Solomon designated seventy thousand men to carry materials, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the hills, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to oversee these men.[#1Ki 5:15–16; 2Ch 2:18]

³And Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre saying,[#2:3 Huram in the Hb text.]

¹¹Then Hiram king of Tyre responded in a letter that he sent to Solomon,

¹²And Hiram said,

¹⁷Then Solomon numbered all the male foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census that David his father had taken. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.[#1Ch 22:2]

¹⁸And he made seventy thousand of them to carry materials, eighty thousand to cut stone in the hills, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to make the people work.[#2Ch 2:2]