1 Kings 9:23
Hebrew Text— 1 Kings 9:23These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
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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.
These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.
The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.
Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”