Thematic Bible: Employed all the strangers in preparing for


Thematic Bible



So Solomon assigned 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 men to quarry stone in the mountains and 3,600 to supervise them.

Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found. 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.

Now Solomon had 70,000 transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains,