Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff. They will say, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’
Also, send me cedar, cypress, and algum , logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut the trees of Lebanon. Note that my servants will be with your servants
I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the trees, four million four hundred thousand litres of wheat flour, four million four hundred thousand litres of barley, four hundred and forty thousand litres of wine, and four hundred and forty thousand litres of oil.