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He assigned seventy thousand men to transport materials, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the hills, and thirty-six hundred to supervise them.

Solomon’s Letter

Solomon sent this message to Huram[a] king of Tyre:

Send me cedar as you did for my father David, when you sent him cedar to build a house for himself to live in.

I am building a house for the Name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for the continual arrangement of bread, for burnt offerings in the morning and evening, for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is to be a permanent regulation for Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:3 Also called Hiram in 1 Kings