Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors. People Abi, Dan, David, Hiram, Huram, SolomonPlaces Jerusalem, Joppa, Lebanon, TyreTopics 3, Assigned, 600, 70000, 80000, Burden-bearers, Burdens, Carriers, Carry, Cause, Cutters, Cutting, Eighty, Foremen, Fourscore, Hewers, Hill, Hills, Hundred, Loads, Maketh, Mountain, Mountains, Overseers, Quarry, Seventy, Six, Stone, Stonecutters, Stone-masons, Stones, Supervisors, Ten, Thousand, Threescore, Transport, WorkingOutline 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 Appointed Bear Bearers Burdens Carriers Carry Cutters Cutting Eighty Foremen Fourscore Hewers Hill Hills Hundred Loads Mountain Mountains Overseers Quarry Seventy Six Stone Stonecutters Stones Ten Thousand Three Threescore Transport Work WorkingJump to Next Appointed Bear Bearers Burdens Carriers Carry Cutters Cutting Eighty Foremen Fourscore Hewers Hill Hills Hundred Loads Mountain Mountains Overseers Quarry Seventy Six Stone Stonecutters Stones Ten Thousand Three Threescore Transport Work WorkingLibrary 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: He appointed 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stones in the mountains and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.KJV: And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
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