2 Chronicles 2:1-3

Modern English Version

Plans for Building the Temple^(A)

2 Now Solomon wanted to build a temple for the name of the Lord and a royal house for his kingship. ² And Solomon designated seventy thousand men to carry materials, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the hills, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to oversee these men.

³ And Solomon sent word to Hiram^[a] king of Tyre saying,

“As you did for David my father and sent him cedar trees in order to build for himself a house in which to dwell, so deal with me.