1 Kings 5:15

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand hewers in the mountaines:
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

Now Solomon had 70,000 transporters, and 80,000 hewers {of stone} in the mountains,
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
- American Standard Version (1901)

Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;
- Basic English Bible

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;
- Darby Bible

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;
- Webster's Bible

Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
- World English Bible

And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,
- Youngs Literal Bible

(5:29) And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for 1 Kings 5:15

5:13 The levy - Which were to be employed in the most honourableand easy parts of the work relating to the temple; and these wereIsraelites; but those fifteen hundred thousand mentioned ver.#15|,were strangers. If it seem strange, that so many thousands should beemployed about so small a building as the temple was; it must be considered, that the temple, all its parts being considered, was far larger than men imagine; that it is probable, they were employed by turns, as the thirty thousand were, ver.#14|, else they had been oppressed with hard and uninterrupted labours. that the timber and stone hewed and carried by them, was designed, not only for the temple, but also for Solomon's own houses, and buildings; because we read of no other levy of men, nor of any care and pains taken after the building of the temple, for the procurement, or preparation of materials for his own houses, or his other buildings; nay, that this very levy of men was made and employed for the building of the Lord's house, and Solomon's house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer, is expressed chap.#9:15|.

5:16 Three thousand &c. - Whereof three thousand were set over thefifteen hundred thousand, expressed ver.#15|, each of these, over fiftyof them, and the odd three hundred were set over these three thousand, eachof these to have the oversight of ten of them, to take an account of thework for them. But in #2Chron 2:18|, these overseers are said to bethirty - six hundred. The three thousand added in #2Chron 2:2|, might bea reserve, to supply the places of the other three thousand: yea, or of thethirty - three hundred, as any of them should be taken off from the work bydeath, or sickness, or weakness, or necessary occasions; which was a prudentprovision, and not unusual in like cases. And so there were thirty - sixhundred commissioned for the work, but only thirty - three hundred employed atone time; and therefore both computations fairly stand together.

5:17 Great and costly - Marble and porphyry, or other stones of greatsize and value. The foundation - Where they could not afterward be seen:and therefore that this was done, is mentioned only as a point ofmagnificence, except it was intended for a type, or mystical significationof the preciousness of Christ, who is the foundation of the true temple,the church of God.