1 Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.2 He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.3 Solomon sent this message to Hiram "king of Tyre: "Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.4 Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.5 "The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.6 But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?7 "Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, whom my father David provided.8 "Send me also cedar, juniper and algum "logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber there. My servants will work with yours9 to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent.10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors "of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors "of barley, twenty thousand baths "of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil."11 Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king."12 And Hiram added: "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the LORD and a palace for himself.13 "I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill,14 whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.15 "Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised,16 and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem."17 Solomon took a census of all the foreigners residing in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.18 He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.

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.