2 Chronicles 2:1-3

Christian Standard Bible

Solomon’s Letter to Hiram

2 Solomon decided to build a temple for the name of the Lord and a royal palace for himself,^{(A) 2} so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.^(B)

³ Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram^[a](C) of Tyre:^(D)

Do for me what you did for my father David. You sent him cedars to build him a house to live in.^(E)