1 Kings 5:16 as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers.

English Standard Version
besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

New American Standard Bible
besides Solomon's 3,300 chief deputies who were over the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.

King James Bible
Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
not including his 3,300 deputies in charge of the work. They ruled over the people doing the work.

International Standard Version
Solomon also employed 3,300 officials to supervise the work and to manage the people employed in the construction.

American Standard Version
besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

Young's Literal Translation
apart from the heads of the officers of Solomon, who are over the work, three thousand and three hundred, those ruling over the people who are working in the business.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:23
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bore rule over the people that worked in the work.

2 Chronicles 2:2
And Solomon told out three score 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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Addition Apart Authority Besides Bore Carried Charge Chief Chiefs Deputies Directed Foremen Heads Hundred Labored Officers Oversee Overseers Project Responsible Rule Ruled Solomon Solomon's Supervised Thirty-Three Thousand Three Work Wrought

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:10-18 The temple was chiefly built by the riches and labour of Gentiles, which typified their being called into the church. Solomon commanded, and they brought costly stones for the foundation. Christ, who is laid for a Foundation, is a chosen and precious Stone. We should lay our foundation firm, and bestow most pains on that part of our religion which lies out of the sight of men. And happy those who, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, for a habitation of God through the Spirit. Who among us will build in the house of the Lord?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

1Ki 5:13-18. Solomon's Workmen and Laborers.

13. Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel—The renewed notice of Solomon's divine gift of wisdom (1Ki 5:12) is evidently introduced to prepare for this record of the strong but prudent measures he took towards the accomplishment of his work. So great a stretch of arbitrary power as is implied in this compulsory levy would have raised great discontent, if not opposition, had not his wise arrangement of letting the laborers remain at home two months out of three, added to the sacredness of the work, reconciled the people to this forced labor. The carrying of burdens and the irksome work of excavating the quarries was assigned to the remnant of the Canaanites (1Ki 9:20; 2Ch 8:7-9) and war prisoners made by David—amounting to 153,600. The employment of persons of that condition in Eastern countries for carrying on any public work, would make this part of the arrangements the less thought of.