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1 Kings 5:15

World English Bible

Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

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1 Kings 5:15 in other translations

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

1 Kings 5:15 · American Standard Version

1 Kings 5:15 in context

  1. 13King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
  2. 14He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
  3. 15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
  4. 16besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
  5. 17The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.