Thematic Bible: Were frequently employed in public works
Thematic Bible
Strangers in israel » Were frequently employed in public works
David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.