2 Chronicles 2:11-18 ▼

11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered in a letter sent to Solomon: |Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them.|

12 Then Huram continued, |Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a house for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

13 |Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding,

14 the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, [and] in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and [who knows how] to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, [to work] with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father.

15 |Now then, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken.

16 |We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem.|

17 Solomon numbered all the aliens who [were] in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.

18 He appointed 70000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry [stones] in the mountains and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.