besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.
- NKJV besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.
- NASB besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the project and ruled over the people who were doing the work.
- NLT and 3,600 foremen to supervise the work.
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Cross-references · 2
- 1 Kgs 9:23These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
- 2 Chr 2:2Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
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