2 Chronicles 2:16-18

New American Standard Bible

^16 (A)We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you as rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem.”

¹⁷ Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, ^(B)following the ^[a]census which his father David had ^[b]taken; and 153,600 were found. ^18 (C)He appointed seventy thousand of them to carry loads and eighty thousand to quarry stones in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.