1 Raja-raja 5:16-18

5:16 besides 3,300 ¹  officials who supervised the workers. ²  5:17 By royal order ³  they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ⁴  along with men from Byblos, ⁵  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ⁶ 

[5:16]  ¹ tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

[5:16]  ² tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[5:17]  ³ tn Heb “and the king commanded.”

[5:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “builders.”

[5:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

[5:18]  ⁶ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”