1 Kings 5:15
Good News Translation
Solomon also had 80,000 stone cutters in the hill country, with 70,000 men to carry the stones,

New Revised Standard Version
Solomon also had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country,

Contemporary English Version
He also had 80,000 workers to cut stone in the hill country of Israel, 70,000 workers to carry the stones,

New American Bible
Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

1 Kings 9:20-22 All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of Israel: . . .

2 Chronicles 2:17,18 And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred. . . .

2 Chronicles 8:7-9 All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the stock of Israel: . . .

Ezra 2:58 All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7:57,60 The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida, . . .

Context
Solomon's Workmen and Laborers
14And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy. 15And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:16Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.…
Cross References
Joshua 9:21
But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,

1 Kings 9:20
All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of Israel:

2 Chronicles 2:2
And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.

2 Chronicles 2:18
And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.

1 Kings 5:14
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