15 Now (A)Solomon had seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand stonemasons in the mountains, 16 (B)besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the [a]project and ruled over the people who were doing the work. 17 Then (C)the king issued orders, and they quarried large stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:16 Lit work

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