¹⁶ not counting the chief of Solomon’s officers who were over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people who did the work. ¹⁷ At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. ¹⁸ Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders, along with the stonemasons, cut them and prepared timber and stones to build the house.