1 Kings 5:15
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| Overview - 1 Kings 5 | |||
| 1 | Hiram, sending to congratulate Solomon, is desired to furnish him with timber to build the temple. | ||
| 7 | Hiram, blessing God for Solomon, and requesting food for his family, furnishes him with trees. | ||
| 13 | The number of Solomon's workmen and labourers  | ||
1 Kings 5:15 (King James Version)
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
- threescore
- These were all strangers, or proselytes, dwelling among the Israelites, as we learn from the paralled place in 2 Chron.
- 9:20-22 2 Chronicles 2:17 2 Chronicles 2:18 ; 8:7-9 Ezra 2:58 ; Nehemiah 7:57 Nehemiah 7:60