Thematic Bible: Were frequently employed in public works
Thematic Bible
Strangers in israel » Were frequently employed in public works
And David commanded to collect the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.