1 Kings 5:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 9:20-22 : 20 As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel; 21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day. 22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.
  • 2 Chr 2:17-18 : 17 Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred. 18 Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.
  • 2 Chr 8:7-9 : 7 As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel: 8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day; 9 But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.
  • Ezra 2:58 : 58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.
  • Neh 7:57 : 57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
  • Neh 7:60 : 60 All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

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  • 2 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
    92%

    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

    2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

  • 2 Chr 2:16-18
    3 verses
    91%

    16 And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

    17 Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

    18 Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

  • 1 Kgs 5:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16 In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.

    17 By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

    18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13 Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

    14 And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.

  • 1 Kgs 9:23
    77%

    23 These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.

  • 1 Chr 22:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

    16 In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

  • 2 Chr 2:10
    74%

    10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

  • 2 Chr 8:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.

    10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

  • 1 Kgs 4:26
    73%

    26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

  • 1 Kgs 9:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 1 Kgs 10:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

    27 And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

  • 1 Kgs 5:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

    7 And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.

  • 2 Chr 9:25
    72%

    25 Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 1:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

    15 And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

  • Neh 7:60
    70%

    60 All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

  • 1 Kgs 4:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

    23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

  • 1 Kgs 4:7
    70%

    7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
    70%

    5 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

  • Song 3:7
    70%

    7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

  • 2 Chr 7:5
    70%

    5 King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
    70%

    2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

  • 2 Chr 8:18
    70%

    18 And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.

  • 1 Chr 23:4
    70%

    4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority;

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    70%

    2 And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 10:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

    15 In addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    69%

    5 And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

  • Song 8:12
    69%

    12 My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
    69%

    13 Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
    69%

    27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

  • Ezra 2:65
    69%

    65 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.

  • 1 Kgs 5:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

    11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

  • 2 Chr 9:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14 And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.

    15 And King Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

  • Num 31:37
    69%

    37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

  • Num 31:33
    69%

    33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,