¹⁸ He assigned^(A) 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.

¹⁵ Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, ¹⁶ as well as thirty-three hundred^[a] foremen^(A) who supervised the project and directed the workers.

⁷ There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites^(A) (these people were not Israelites). ⁸ Solomon conscripted^(B) the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

²⁰ There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites,^(A) Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites^(B) (these peoples were not Israelites). ²¹ Solomon conscripted the descendants^(C) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate^[a](D)—to serve as slave labor,^(E) as it is to this day.