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The Material here is repeated from I Kings 5 .
Chapter 2 tells of Solomon's determination to build the Temple and a royal Palace and his request of Huram, King of Tyre, to furnish him both craftsman and materials to accomplish this. It tells of Huram's obliging answer and compliance with Solomon's request.
Notice the labor force that Solomon had assembled: 70,000 laborers, 80,000 stonecutters, and 3,600 foremen. Notice also the financial arrangements that Solomon made for the woodcutters that stayed in Phoenicia and cut the timbers needed in the construction of the Temple. He paid them 20,000 sacks of wheat, 20,000 bbls. of barley, 20,000 bbls. of wine and 20,000 bbls. of olive oil. Furnished by King Huram of Tyre was a "Master Craftsman" by the name of Huramabi. He was the son of a Jewish woman and a Phoenician man. Solomon took census of foreigners in the land and found that there were 153,000 of them.
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