He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.
But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work, but they were men of war, chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife will not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the ark of YHWH has come are holy.”