Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message—besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred chief officers who supervised the people doing the work.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G—besides Shlomo's three thousand three hundred chief overseers who directed the workforce engaged in the labour.
KJV
King James VersionBeside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
BSB
Berean Standard Biblenot including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.
Footnotes
The cumulative workforce numbers across verses 13–16 are staggering: 30,000 Israelite conscripts, 70,000 burden-bearers, 80,000 quarrymen, and 3,300 overseers—likely combining Israelite levies with Canaanite subject labour (cf. 1 Kings 9:20–22, which clarifies that the permanent corvée comprised non-Israelites). The scale underscores that the temple was a national—indeed imperial—project demanding the full resource-capacity of the kingdom. The text invites the reader to hold two truths simultaneously: the magnificent devotion to YHWH's house, and the crushing human cost it extracted from the people.
