1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.3 And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,4 See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.5 And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.6 But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.7 So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.8 And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.12 And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.13 And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the invention of every sort of design; let him be given a place among your expert workmen and those of my lord, your father David.15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;16 And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.17 Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.18 Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

1 Decrevit autem Salomon dificare domum nomini Domini, et palatium sibi. 2 Et numeravit septuaginta millia virorum portantium humeris, et octoginta millia qui cderent lapides in montibus, prpositosque eorum tria millia sexcentos. 3 Misit quoque ad Hiram regem Tyri, dicens : Sicut egisti cum David patre meo, et misisti ei ligna cedrina ut dificaret sibi domum, in qua et habitavit : 4 sic fac mecum ut dificem domum nomini Domini Dei mei, ut consecrem eam ad adolendum incensum coram illo, et fumiganda aromata, et ad propositionem panum sempiternam, et ad holocautomata mane, et vespere, sabbatis quoque, et neomeniis, et solemnitatibus Domini Dei nostri in sempiternum, qu mandata sunt Israli. 5 Domus enim quam dificare cupio, magna est : magnus est enim Deus noster super omnes deos. 6 Quis ergo poterit prvalere, ut dificet ei dignam domum ? si clum, et cli clorum, capere eum nequeunt, quantus ego sum, ut possim dificare ei domum ? sed ad hoc tantum, ut adoleatur incensum coram illo. 7 Mitte ergo mihi virum eruditum, qui noverit operari in auro, et argento, re, et ferro, purpura, coccino, et hyacintho : et qui sciat sculpere claturas cum his artificibus quos mecum habeo in Juda, et Jerusalem, quos prparavit David pater meus. 8 Sed et ligna cedrina mitte mihi, et arceuthina, et pinea de Libano : scio enim quod servi tui noverint cdere ligna de Libano : et erunt servi mei cum servis tuis, 9 ut parentur mihi ligna plurima. Domus enim quam cupio dificare, magna est nimis, et inclyta. 10 Prterea operariis qui csuri sunt ligna, servis tuis, dabo in cibaria tritici coros viginti millia, et hordei coros totidem, et vini viginti millia metretas, olei quoque sata viginti millia.11 Dixit autem Hiram rex Tyri per litteras quas miserat Salomoni : Quia dilexit Dominus populum suum, idcirco te regnare fecit super eum. 12 Et addidit, dicens : Benedictus Dominus Deus Isral, qui fecit clum et terram : qui dedit David regi filium sapientem et eruditum et sensatum atque prudentem, ut dificaret domum Domino, et palatium sibi. 13 Misi ergo tibi virum prudentem et scientissimum Hiram patrem meum, 14 filium mulieris de filiabus Dan, cujus pater fuit Tyrius, qui novit operari in auro, et argento, re, et ferro, et marmore, et lignis, in purpura quoque, et hyacintho, et bysso, et coccino : et qui scit clare omnem sculpturam, et adinvenire prudenter quodcumque in opere necessarium est cum artificibus tuis, et cum artificibus domini mei David patris tui. 15 Triticum ergo, et hordeum, et oleum, et vinum, qu pollicitus es, domine mi, mitte servis tuis. 16 Nos autem cdemus ligna de Libano, quot necessaria habueris, et applicabimus ea ratibus per mare in Joppe : tuum autem erit transferre ea in Jerusalem. 17 Numeravit igitur Salomon omnes viros proselytos qui erant in terra Isral, post dinumerationem quam dinumeravit David pater ejus, et inventi sunt centum quinquaginta millia, et tria millia sexcenti. 18 Fecitque ex eis septuaginta millia qui humeris onera portarent, et octoginta millia qui lapides in montibus cderent : tria autem millia et sexcentos prpositos operum populi.