And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;
And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
Threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens - These were all strangers, or proselytes, dwelling among the Israelites; as we learn from the parallel place, 2 Chronicles 2:17, 2 Chronicles 2:18.
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.