1 Kings 5:15 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 5:15

Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 19 (PS 89 [90]) (420)

Listen to even greater mysteries. At the time when Solomon built the temple, it was our peacemaker who says, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you," "for he himself is our peace," "the peace of God that surpasses all understanding," who himself built the temple for God. Observe what Scripture says about the building of the temple by Solomon: "And there were seventy thousand quarrymen and eighty thousand carriers." Mark the number.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is here said of Hiram their king that he was ever a lover of David; and we have reason to think he was a worshipper of the true God, and had himself renounced, though he could not reform, the idolatry of his city.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

That bare burdens ... - Compare the marginal references. These laborers, whose services were continuous, consisted of “strangers” - “the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites” - whom Solomon, following the example of his father 1Ch 22:2, condemned to slavery, and employed in this way.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֧י	vay.Hi	and it belonged	H1961 →
לִשְׁלֹמֹ֛ה	lish.lo.Moh	to Solomon	H8010 →
שִׁבְעִ֥ים	shiv.'Im	seventy	H7657 →
אֶ֖לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
נֹשֵׂ֣א	no.Se'	carrier[s]	H5375 →
סַבָּ֑ל	sa.Bal	burden-bearer[s]	H5449 →
וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים	u.she.mo.Nim	and eighty	H8084 →
אֶ֖לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
חֹצֵ֥ב	cho.Tzev	stone-cutter[s]	H2672 →
בָּהָֽר׃	ba.Har	in the hill country	H2022 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezra 2:58
The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 9:2
  Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
- 1 Kings 9:21
  their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
- Joshua 9:21
  They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
- Joshua 9:23
  Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
- Joshua 9:27
  On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
Through
Nehemiah 7:57
The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,
leads to
- Ezra 2:55
  The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Peruda,
- Nehemiah 11:3
  These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of…
Through
Nehemiah 7:60
The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
leads to
- Ezra 2:58
  The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.

About 1 Kings

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonSolomonDavid's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 1 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 1 Kings