15 (A)Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains,

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15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,

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16 besides three thousand [a]three hundred from the (A)chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:16 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX six hundred

16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(A) who supervised the project and directed the workers.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred

18 And he made (A)seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.

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18 He assigned(A) 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.

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