2 Chronicles 2:1-3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Solomon’s Letter to Hiram

2 ^[a]Solomon decided to build a temple for the name of Yahweh and a royal palace for himself,^{(A) 2 [b]}so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.^(B)

³ Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram^[c](C) of Tyre:^(D)