1 Kings 5:15
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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.

Lexicon
Solomon
לִשְׁלֹמֹ֛ה (liš·lō·mōh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8010: Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne

had
וַיְהִ֧י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

70,000 {}
שִׁבְעִ֥ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number)

porters
נֹשֵׂ֣א (nō·śê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

and 80,000 {}
וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים (ū·šə·mō·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8084: Eighty, eightieth

stonecutters
חֹצֵ֥ב (ḥō·ṣêḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2672: To cut, carve, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave

in the mountains,
בָּהָֽר׃ (bā·hār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country


Additional Translations
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain;

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;

Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,
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