1 Kings 5:15
What does 1 Kings 5:15 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Kings 5:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;
Context
v.14And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.
v.15This passage
v.16besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nehemiah 7:60
All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
- 2 Chronicles 8:7
As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that were not of Israel;
- Nehemiah 7:57
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
- Ezra 2:58
All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
- 1 Kings 9:20
As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
- 2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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