1 Kings 5:16 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 5:16

not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

KJV

Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

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Commentary

5 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 Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Three thousand &c. - Whereof three thousand were set over the fifteen hundred thousand, expressed ver. 15, each of these, over fifty of them, and the odd three hundred were set over these three thousand, each of these to have the oversight of ten of them, to take an account of the work for them. But in 2 Chron. ii, 18, these overseers are said to be thirty-six hundred.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He speaks of the vastness of his undertakings ( Eccl. ii. 4 , I made me great works ), which required this vast number of workmen. The laying of the foundation of the temple; for that is the building his heart is chiefly upon, and therefore he begins with that,

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

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Besides - three thousand and three hundred which ruled over the people - In the parallel place, 2Ch 2:18, it is three thousand six hundred. The Septuagint has here the same number.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְ֠בַד	Le.vad	<to> apart	H905 →
מִשָּׂרֵ֨י	mi.sa.Rei	from [the] leaders of	H8269 →
הַנִּצָּבִ֤ים	ha.ni.tza.Vim	the overseers	H5324 →
לִשְׁלֹמֹה֙	lish.lo.Moh	of Solomon	H8010 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
עַל־	'al-	[were] over	H5921 →
הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה	ha.me.la.Khah	the work	H4399 →
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת	she.Lo.shet	three	H7969 →
אֲלָפִ֖ים	'a.la.Fim	thousand<s>	H505 →
וּשְׁלֹ֣שׁ	u.she.Losh	and three	H7969 →
מֵא֑וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
הָרֹדִ֣ים	ha.ro.Dim	who ruled	H7287 →
בָּעָ֔ם	ba.'Am	over the people	H5971 →
הָעֹשִׂ֖ים	ha.'o.Sim	who were doing	H6213 →
בַּמְּלָאכָֽה׃	ba.me.la.Khah	<in> the work	H4399 →

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 walk3

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
2 Chronicles 2:2
So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 2:18
  Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 5:15–16
  Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
Through
1 Kings 9:23
They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 8:10
  They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

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