Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
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- KJV And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
- BSB Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
- NKJV Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains,
- NASB Now Solomon had seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand stonemasons in the mountains,
- NLT Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 quarry workers in the hill country,
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- 1 Kgs 9:20–22As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
- 2 Chr 2:17–18Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
- Ezra 2:58All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
- Neh 7:60All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
- Neh 7:57The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
- 2 Chr 8:7–9As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
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