16. Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand, and three hundred that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.
17. And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:
18. And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.