15. Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains,
16. besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.
17. And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple.
18. So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple.