1 Kings 5:16

not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.

Majority Standard Bible

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

15Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

17And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

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Cross References

1 Kings 9:23They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.

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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