1 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
2 tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).
3 tc Some Greek
4 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.”
5 tn Heb “and the king commanded.”
6 tn Heb “builders.”
7 tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”
8 tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”