10 ^aAnd indeed I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.  ‡

11 Then Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon:
^aBecause the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them.  ‡

13 And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding,¹ Huram my master craftsman ‡

14 ^a(the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. ‡