Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Comparing this verse and I Kings 9:23 with II Chronicles 2:18; II Chronicles 8:10, the entire number of the overseers will be seen to be stated by both writers at 3,850; but in the one case nationality, in the other degree of authority, is made the principle of the division.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 5:16:
1 Samuel 8:14-18
1 Kings 7:1
1 Kings 9:23
2 Chronicles 2:18
2 Chronicles 8:10
Zechariah 6:13
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