1 Kings 5:15

Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

Bible in Basic English

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 sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.

16In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.

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Cross References

Joshua 19:29And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;

1 Kings 9:20As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel;

2 Chronicles 2:1Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

2 Chronicles 2:17Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

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

Nehemiah 7:60All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and 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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