1 Kings 5:15

Contextual Overview

¹⁰So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted, ¹⁰ So Hiram gave Shlomo timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. ¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. ¹⁰ So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, ¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon as much cedar and pine as he wanted. ¹⁰ So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed, ¹⁰So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar and cypress timber he desired, ¹⁰ So Hiram gave Solomon all that he wished of the cedar and juniper timber. ¹⁰ So Hiram gaue Salomon cedar trees and firre trees, euen his full desire. ¹⁰So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber.

Bible Verse Review
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threescore: These were all strangers, or proselytes, dwelling among the Israelites, as we learn from the paralled place in 2Chr. 1 Kings 9:20-22, 2 Chronicles 2:17, 2 Chronicles 2:18, 2 Chronicles 8:7-9, Ezra 2:58, Nehemiah 7:57, Nehemiah 7:60

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 2:2 - told out threescore 2 Chronicles 24:12 - masons

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalal'el, Yered,

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan was the father of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the father of Jared. Jared was the father of Enoch.

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jered,

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Iered,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens,.... Seventy thousand to carry the stones from the mountains out of which they were dug, and which were near Jerusalem, to the city; these were strangers in Israel, as were those that follow:

and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains: eighty thousand that dug the stones out of the quarries, and squared them; these, with the others, made 150,000, see 2 Chronicles 2:17; according to Jacob Leon g, the number of workmen at the temple for seven years was 163,600, and some make them more.

g Relation of Memorable Things in the Temple, ch. 3. p. 14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 1 Chronicles 22:2, condemned to slavery, and employed in this way.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 5:15. Threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens — These were all strangers, or proselytes, dwelling among the Israelites; as we learn from the parallel place, 1 Kings 2:17-18.