¹⁷ And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and ^(A)hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the ^[a]temple. ¹⁸ So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the ^[b]temple.

⁷ They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and ^(A)food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to ^(B)Joppa, ^(C)according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.