1 Kings 5:16

1 Kings 5:16

14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; ^aAdoniram was in charge of the labor force.

15 ^aSolomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains,

16 besides three thousand¹ three hundred from the ^achiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.

17 And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and ^ahewn stones, to lay the foundation of the¹ temple.

18 So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the¹ temple.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Three thousand etc. - Whereof three thousand were set over the fifteen hundred thousand, expressed I Kings 5:15, 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 II Chronicles 2:18, these overseers are said to be thirty - six hundred. The three thousand added in II Chronicles 2:2, might be a reserve, to supply the places of the other three thousand: yea, or of the thirty - three hundred, as any of them should be taken off from the work by death, or sickness, or weakness, or necessary occasions; which was a prudent provision, and not unusual in like cases. And so there were thirty - six hundred commissioned for the work, but only thirty - three hundred employed at one time; and therefore both computations fairly stand together.

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