2 Chronicles 2:8–16

⁸Send me also cedar, cypress,^b and algum^c logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours ⁹to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful. ¹⁰I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat,^d 20,000 cors of barley,^e 20,000 baths of wine,^f and 20,000 baths of olive oil.^g”

¹¹Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon:

“Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”

¹²And Hiram added:

“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

¹³So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.^{h 14}He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.

¹⁵Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised. ¹⁶We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”