15 Solomon also (A)had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, 16 besides Solomon's 3,300 (B)chief officers who were over the work, (C)who had charge of the people who carried on the work. 17 At the king's command (D)they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

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