So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors. People Abi, Dan, David, Hiram, Huram, SolomonPlaces Jerusalem, Joppa, Lebanon, TyreTopics Assigned, 600, Bear, 80000, Bearing, Burden, Burdens, Carriers, Carry, Counted, Cutters, Cutting, Eighty, Foremen, Fourscore, Hew, Hewers, Hewing, Hill, Hills, Hundred, Loads, Mountain, Mountains, Numbered, Numbereth, Oversee, Overseers, Quarry, Seventy, Six, Solomon, Stone, Stonecutters, Stone-masons, Superintend, Supervise, Ten, Thirty-six, Thousand, Threescore, TransportOutline 1. Solomon's laborers for the building of the temple3. His ambassage to Huram for workmen and provisions11. Huram sends him a kind answer17 Jump to Previous Assigned Bear Burdens Carriers Carry Conscripted Counted Country Cutters Cutting Eighty Foremen Fourscore Hew Hewers Hill Hills Hundred Loads Mountain Mountains Numbered Numbereth Oversee Overseers Seventy Six Solomon Stone Stonecutters Superintend Ten Thirty-Six Thousand Three ThreescoreJump to Next Assigned Bear Burdens Carriers Carry Conscripted Counted Country Cutters Cutting Eighty Foremen Fourscore Hew Hewers Hill Hills Hundred Loads Mountain Mountains Numbered Numbereth Oversee Overseers Seventy Six Solomon Stone Stonecutters Superintend Ten Thirty-Six Thousand Three ThreescoreLibrary Hiram, the Inspired Artificer
BY REV. W. J. TOWNSEND, D.D. The Temple of Solomon was the crown of art in the old world. There were temples on a larger scale, and of more massive construction, but the enormous masses of masonry of the oldest nations were not comparable with the artistic grace, the luxurious adornments, and the harmonious proportions of this glorious House of God. David had laid up money and material for the great work, but he was not permitted to carry it out. He was a man of war, and blood-stained hands were …
George Milligan—Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-KnownChronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Parallel Verses NASB: So Solomon assigned 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 men to quarry stone in the mountains and 3,600 to supervise them.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.
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