1 Kings 5:18 BBE

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.