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.

^18 (A)He appointed seventy thousand of them to carry loads and eighty thousand to quarry stones in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.