1Kgs.5.15

1 Kings 5:15

KJV

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

Solomon’s Labor Force

Cross References

Joshua 9:21

KJV

And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

The Deceit of the Gibeonites

1 Kings 9:20

KJV

And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

Solomon’s Additional Achievements

2 Chronicles 2:2

KJV

And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

Preparations for the Temple

2 Chronicles 2:17

KJV

¶ And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

Hiram’s Reply to Solomon

2 Chronicles 2:18

KJV

And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.