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1 Kings 9:23
“These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 9
their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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