1 Kings 5:14-18

5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of ¹  the work crews. 5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers ²  and 80,000 stonecutters ³  in the hills, 5:16 besides 3,300 ⁴  officials who supervised the workers. ⁵  5:17 By royal order ⁶  they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ⁷  along with men from Byblos, ⁸  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “was over.”

² tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

³ tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).

⁴ tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

⁵ tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

⁶ tn Heb “and the king commanded.”

⁷ tn Heb “builders.”

⁸ tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

⁹ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”