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My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. There I will separate the logs and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court."

and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors of wheat as provision for his royal court, as well as 120,000 gallons of pure olive oil.

He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of the work crews.

Solomon's and Hiram's construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.

The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

He made framed windows for the temple.

"As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.

In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars.

In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon's reign the foundation was laid for the Lord 's temple.

The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.

King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre.

He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high.

He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. Each basin was six feet in diameter; there was one basin for each stand.

He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,

the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord 's temple were made from polished bronze.

Solomon also made all these items for the Lord 's temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,

the pure gold bowls, trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

O Lord , truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently."