1 Kings 5:15-18

5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers ¹  and 80,000 stonecutters ²  in the hills, 5:16 besides 3,300 ³  officials who supervised the workers. ⁴  5:17 By royal order ⁵  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, ⁶  along with men from Byblos, ⁷  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ⁸ 

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[5:15]  ² tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).

[5:16]  ³ tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

[5:16]  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.”

[5:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the king commanded.”

[5:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “builders.”

[5:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

[5:18]  ⁹ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”