And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; Treasury of Scripture threescore These were all strangers, or proselytes, dwelling among the israelites, as we learn from the paralled place in 2 Chron. 1 Kings 9:20-22 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites... 2 Chronicles 2:17,18 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel... 2 Chronicles 8:7-9 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites... Ezra 2:58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two. Nehemiah 7:57,60 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida...
Context Solomon's Workmen and Laborers
13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy. 15And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; 16Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that worked in the work. 17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. 18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone squarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:
Darby Bible Translation
And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;
King James Bible
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
Young's Literal Translation
And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,
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