1 Kings 5:15

And Solomon had seventy thousand of those who were carrying burdens, and eighty thousand of those who cut stones from the mountain,

Catholic Public Domain 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 into Lebanon, ten thousand each month, in turns, so that for two months they were in their own houses. And Adoniram was over this type of conscription.

16aside from the commanders who were over each work, in number three thousand and three hundred, who gave orders to the people and to those who were doing the work.

Read all of 1 Kings 5

Cross References

Joshua 19:29And it turns back at Ramah, even to the very fortified city of Tyre, and even to Hosah. And its exits shall be at the sea, from the lot of Achzib;

1 Kings 9:20All the people who had remained of the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,

2 Chronicles 2:1And Solomon resolved to build a house to the name of the Lord, and a palace for himself.

2 Chronicles 2:17And so Solomon numbered all the new converts who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering that David his father had done, and they were found to be one hundred fifty thousand and three thousand six hundred.

Ezra 2:58all the temple servants and the sons of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7:60All the temple servants and the sons of the servants of Solomon, 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 1 Kings 5:15