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And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.'
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Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon: 'Because HaShem loveth His people, He hath made thee king over them.'
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Huram said moreover: 'Blessed be HaShem, the G-d of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for HaShem, and a house for his kingdom.
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And now I have sent a skilful man, endued with understanding, even Huram my master craftsman,
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the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise any device; to do whatever may be set before him, with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David thy father.
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Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants;
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and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.'
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And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.