1 Kings 5:13-18 - Solomon's Work Force

¹³ King Solomon drafted thirty thousand men as forced labor from all over Israel. ¹⁴ He appointed Adoniram to be in charge of them. He divided them into three groups of ten thousand men. Each group spent one month in Lebanon and two months back home. ¹⁵ Solomon also had eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains. There were seventy thousand men to carry the stones. ¹⁶ He placed three thousand three hundred foremen there to supervise their work. ¹⁷ King Solomon command that they cut fine large stones for the foundation of the Temple. ¹⁸ Solomon's and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Gebal prepared the stones and the timber to build the Temple.

¹⁷ Solomon counted all the men who were foreigners in the land of Israel, as his father David had counted them. Solomon counted one hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred foreigners. ¹⁸ He directed seventy thousand of them carry heavy loads, eighty thousand of them quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred of them supervise the work as foremen.