1-kings 5:15

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

American King James Version (AKJV)

And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

American Standard Version (ASV)

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

Basic English Translation (BBE)

Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

Webster's Revision

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;

World English Bible

Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

English Revised Version (ERV)

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

Definitions for 1-kings 5:15

Fourscore - Eighty.
Threescore - Sixty.

Clarke's 1-kings 5:15 Bible Commentary

Threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens - These were all strangers, or proselytes, dwelling among the Israelites; as we learn from the parallel place, 2 Chronicles 2:17, 2 Chronicles 2:18.

Barnes's 1-kings 5:15 Bible Commentary

That bare burdens ... - Compare the marginal references. These laborers, whose services were continuous, consisted of "strangers" - "the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites" - whom Solomon, following the example of his father 1 Chronicles 22:2, condemned to slavery, and employed in this way.

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