Sinai1 Kings 5:16
World English Bible
besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
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1 Kings 5:16 in other translations
besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
1 Kings 5:16 in context
- 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.
- 15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
- 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.
- 17The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
- 18Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.