1 Kings 5:16-18

English Standard Version

¹⁶ besides Solomon's 3,300 ^(A)chief officers who were over the work, ^(B)who had charge of the people who carried on the work. ¹⁷ At the king's command ^(C)they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. ¹⁸ So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and ^(D)the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.