2 ^aSolomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.  ‡

3 Then Solomon sent to¹ Hiram king of Tyre, saying:
^aAs you have dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.  ‡