1 Kings 5:16

The chief of Solomon’s officers we should certainly have supposed to have been taken from the Israelites (as clearly were the 550 named in 1 Kings 9:23). But the passage in Chronicles (2 Chronicles 2:18) — reckoning them at 3,600 — seems to imply that they were, like the overseers of Israel in the Egyptian bondage (Exodus 5:14), taken from the subject races.