2 Chronicles 2:1-3

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 2

Final Preparations for the Temple. ¹ Solomon then resolved to build a house to honor the Lord as well as a palace for himself. ² Therefore, he conscripted seventy thousand men to carry the stone and eighty thousand men to serve as stonecutters, as well as three thousand six hundred men to oversee them.

³ Then Solomon sent this message to King Huram of Tyre: “Some time ago you dealt with my father David, sending him cedars to build a palace in which he would dwell.