And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.
Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that did the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and gatekeepers.
And he spoke before his kindred and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn down: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it:
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.