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

¹³ Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number; ¹⁴ And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them. ¹⁵ Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains; ¹⁶ In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen. ¹⁷ By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone. ¹⁸ Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

¹⁷ Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred. ¹⁸ Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.