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And Solomon counted out seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand men to cut on the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

And Solomon sent to Huram, the king of Tyre, saying, “Since you have done for David, my father, and sent him cedar trees to build himself a house to dwell in,

“behold, I am building a House to the Name of the LORD my God, to sanctify it to Him and to burn sweet incense before Him, for the continual showbread and for the Burnt Offerings of the morning and evening, on the Sabbath days and in the new months and at the solemn Feasts of the LORD our God. This is a perpetual thing for Israel.

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