1 Kings 9:23
Good News Translation
There were 550 officials in charge of the forced labor working on Solomon's various building projects.

New Revised Standard Version
These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred fifty, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon appointed 550 officers to be in charge of his workers and to watch over his building projects.

New American Bible
There were five hundred fifty overseers answerable to Solomon’s governors for the work, directing the people engaged in the work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.

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1 Kings 5:16 Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.

2 Chronicles 2:18 And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.

2 Chronicles 8:10 And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.

Context
Solomon's Numerous Achievements
22But of the children of Israel, Solomon made not any to be bondmen, but they were warriors, and his servants, and his princes, and captains, and overseers of the chariots and horses. 23And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.24And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.…
Cross References
1 Kings 5:16
Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.

2 Chronicles 8:10
And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.

1 Kings 9:22
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