1 Kings 5:15-16

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 

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¹ tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

² tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).

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

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.”