1 Kings 5:15

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;

Darby Translation

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; a month they were in Lebanon, two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

16besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

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Cross References

Joshua 19:29and the border turned to Ramah, and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and ended at the sea by the tract of country of Achzib;

1 Kings 9:20All the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

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

2 Chronicles 2:17And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the account that David his father had taken of them, and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

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

Nehemiah 7:60All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, 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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