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Hiram sent to Shlomo, saying, I have heard [the message] which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
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My servants shall bring them down from Levanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
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So Hiram gave Shlomo timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
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Shlomo gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Shlomo to Hiram year by year.
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The LORD gave Shlomo wisdom, as he promised him; and there was shalom between Hiram and Shlomo; and they two made a league together.
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King Shlomo raised a levy out of all Yisra'el; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
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He sent them to Levanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Levanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
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Shlomo had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
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besides Shlomo's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
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The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
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Shlomo's builders and Hiram's builders and the Givli did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.