2 Chronicles 2:13-18 ▼

13 “And now I am sending a skilled man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,

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 “And 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 And 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 And he appointed 70,000 of them to carry loads, and 80,000 to quarry stones in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.