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Hiram sent men to Solomon to say, "I've received the message you sent me. I will do everything you want in regard to the cedar and cypress logs.
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My workers will bring logs from Lebanon to the sea, and I will have them make them into rafts to go by sea to any place you specify. There I will have them taken apart, and you can use them. You can pay me by providing food for my palace."
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So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar and cypress wood he wanted.
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Solomon gave Hiram 120,000 bushels of wheat and 120,000 gallons of pure olive oil. Solomon paid Hiram this much every year.
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The LORD gave Solomon wisdom as he had promised. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made a treaty with one another.
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King Solomon forced 30,000 men from all over Israel to work for him.
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He sent a shift of 10,000 men to Lebanon for a month. They would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of forced labor.
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Solomon had 70,000 men who carried heavy loads, 70,000 who quarried stone in the mountains,
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and 3,300 foremen who were in charge of the workers.
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The king commanded them to quarry large, expensive blocks of stone in order to provide a foundation of cut stone for the temple.
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Solomon's workmen, Hiram's workmen, and men from Gebal quarried the stone and prepared the logs and stone to build the temple.