1 Kings 5:15

And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 Libanus, ten thousand every month by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.

16Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand, and three hundred that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.

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Cross References

Joshua 19:29And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to Hosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of Achziba:

1 Kings 9:20All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of Israel:

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

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

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

Nehemiah 7:60All the Nathinites, and the children 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 →

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