ime when the other twenty thousand
had finished their task at the appointed time; and so afterward it came
to pass that the first ten thousand returned to their work every fourth
month: and it was Adoram who was over this tribute. There were also of
the strangers who were left by David, who were to carry the stones and
other materials, seventy thousand; and of those that cut the stones,
eighty thousand. Of these three thousand and three hundred were rulers
over the rest. He also enjoined them to cut out large stones for the
foundations of the temple, and that they should fit them and unite them
together in the mountain, and so bring them to the city. This was done
not only by our own country workmen, but by those workmen whom Hiram
sent also.

CHAPTER 3. Of The Building Of This Temple

1. Solomon began to build the temple in the fourth year of his reign, on
the second month, which the Macedonians call Artemisius, and the Hebrews
Jur, five hundred and ninety-two years after the Exodus out of
Egypt; but one thousand and twenty years from Abraham's coming out of
Mesopotamia into Canaan, and after the deluge one thousand four hundred
and forty years; and from Adam, the first man who was created, until
Solomon built the temple, there had passed in all three thousand one
hundred and two years. Now that year on which the temple began to be
built was already the eleventh year of the reign of Hiram; but from the
building of Tyre to the building of the temple, there had passed two
hundred and forty years.

2. Now, therefore, the king laid the foundations of the temple very deep
in the ground, and the materials were strong stones, and such as would
resist the force of time; these were to unite themselves with the earth,
and become a basis and a sure foundation for that superstructure which
was to be erected over it; they were to be so strong, in order to
sustain with ease those vast superstructures and precious ornaments,
whose own weight was to be not less than the weight of those other high
and heavy buildings which the king designed to be very ornamental and
magnificent. They erected its entire body, quite up to the roof, of
white stone; its height was sixty cubits, and its length was the same,
and its breadth twenty. There was another building erected over it,
equal to it in its measures; so that the entire altitude of the temple
was a hundred and twenty cubits. Its front was to the east. As to the
porch, they built