¹⁶ besides three thousand ^[a]three hundred from the ^(A)chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.

²³ Others were chiefs of the officials who were over Solomon’s work: ^(A)five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.

^2 (A)Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.