II Chronicles 2 · דברי הימים ב

And Shelomo counted seventy thousand men to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

And Shelomo sent to Ḥuram the king of Żor, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell in, even so deal with me.

Behold, I build a house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the appointed seasons of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Yisra᾽el.

And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, except as a place to burn incense before him?

Send me now therefore a man skilled for work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who has skill to engrave with the skilful men that are with me in Yehuda and in Yerushalayim, whom David my father did provide.

Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees, out of the Levanon: for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in the Levanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand bats of wine, and twenty thousand bats of oil.

Then Ḥuram the king of Żor answered in a writing, which he sent to Shelomo, Seeing that the Lord has loved his people, he has made thee king over them.

And Ḥuram said, Blessed is the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, who might build a house for the Lord, and a royal house for himself.

And now I have sent a skilful man, endued with understanding, Ḥuram-avi,

the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Żor, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to work all kinds of artistic work; to do whatever shall be put to him, with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David thy father.

Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:

and we will cut wood out of the Levanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee on rafts by sea to Yafo; and thou shalt carry it up to Yerushalayim.

And Shelomo numbered all the strangers who were in the land of Yisra᾽el, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found to be a hundred and fifty three thousand six hundred.

And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.