1 Kings 5:15

And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were hewers in the mountains,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

In Context

14And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses. They were in Lebanon a month, and at home two months. And Adoniram was over the men subject to task work.

16besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work: three thousand and three hundred who bore rule over the people that labored in the work.

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Cross References

Joshua 19:29and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre, and the border turned to Hosah. And the goings out of it were at the sea by the region of Achzib,

1 Kings 9:20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,

2 Chronicles 2:1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

2 Chronicles 2:17And Solomon numbered all the aliens that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them. And they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.

Ezra 2:58All the Nethinim and the sons of Solomon's servants were three hundred ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7:60All the Nethinim and the sons of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 5:11-18

10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. 13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a… Read the whole commentary →

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