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Solomon’s Labor Force

1 Kings 5:15

In 11 translations

BSB
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
KJV
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
WEB
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains,
ASV
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
LSV
And King Solomon has seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,
YLT
And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,
DBY
And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;
DRC
And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:
GNV
And Salomon had seuentie thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand masons in the mountaine,
JPS5:29
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
LXXE2:35
And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain: And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain;

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Original-language editions

WLC5:29
וַיְהִ֧י לִשְׁלֹמֹ֛ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף נֹשֵׂ֣א סַבָּ֑ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֥ב בָּהָֽר׃KJV:1Kgs.5.15
LXX-Br2:35
Καὶ ἦν τῷ Σαλωμὼν ἐβδομήκοντα χιλιάδες αἴροντες ἄρσιν, καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα χιλιάδες λατόμων ἐν τῷ ὄρει· Καὶ ἦν τῷ Σαλωμὼν ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάδες αἴροντες ἄρσιν, καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα χιλιάδες λατόμων ἐν τῷ ὄρει,

Who and where

👤 Solomon◆ Reign of Solomon◆ Construction of Solomon's Temple

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Kings 9:20–22As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)— their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable…
  • 2 Chronicles 2:17–18Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all. Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the…
  • 2 Chronicles 8:7–9As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)— their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable…
  • Ezra 2:58The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
  • Nehemiah 7:60The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
  • Nehemiah 7:57The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,

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  • 5:29 in some Bibles
  • 5:15 in most Bibles
  • In some Bibles also at 5:15.

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