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And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to superintend them.
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men Of whom, and the difference of the last number in this text from ( 1 Kings 5:151 Kings 5:16 ) , see the notes there. (See Gill on 1 Kings 5:15). (See Gill on 1 Kings 5:16).
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And Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.
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And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to superintend them.
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And Solomon sent to Huram king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein [so do for me].
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Behold, I build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God to dedicate it to him, to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual arrangement [of the shewbread], and for the morning and evening burnt-offerings [and] on the sabbaths and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is [an ordinance] for ever to Israel.
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And the house that I will build is great; for great is our God above all gods.