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AFTER the delivery of this prophecy, the king commanded the strangers
to be numbered; and they were found to be one hundred and eighty thousand;
of these he appointed fourscore thousand to be hewers of stone, and the
rest of the multitude to carry the stones, and of them he set over the
workmen three thousand and five hundred. He also prepared a great quantity
of iron and brass for the work, with many (and those exceeding large) cedar
trees; the Tyrians and Sidonians sending them to him, for he had sent to
them for a supply of those trees. And he told his friends that these things
were now prepared, that he might leave materials ready for the building
of the temple to his son, who was to reign after him, and that he might
not have them to seek then, when he was very young, and by reason of his
age unskillful in such matters, but might have them lying by him, and so
might the more readily complete the work.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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