^{2 [a] (A)}And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and ^(B)3,600 to oversee them.

^18 (A)Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.

¹⁰ In Judah it was said,^[a] “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”