King James Version (KJV)
1 Kings 5:15
“And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 5
13
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
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And 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 levy.
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And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
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Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
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And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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