1 Kings 5:16

And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

In Context

15And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.

17Thou knewest + 5:17 Or, that my father David, etc.my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God + 5:17 Gr. from the face of. Hebraism.because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the + 5:17 Or, steps.soles of his feet.

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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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