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1 Kings 5:15-17
New English Translation
1 Kings 5:15-17
New English Translation
15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers[a] and 80,000 stonecutters[b] in the hills, 16 besides 3,300 officials[c] who supervised the workers.[d] 17 By royal order[e] they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.
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- 1 Kings 5:15 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
- 1 Kings 5:15 tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).
- 1 Kings 5:16 tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.
- 1 Kings 5:16 tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
- 1 Kings 5:17 tn Heb “and the king commanded.”
1 Kings 5:15-17
New International Version
1 Kings 5:15-17
New International Version
15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(A) who supervised the project and directed the workers. 17 At the king’s command they removed from the quarry(B) large blocks of high-grade stone(C) to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred
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