📖WEB · 1 Kings 5:16
What does 1 Kings 5:16 mean?
"besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work."
— 1 Kings 5:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
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