KJV ORIGINAL
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
Solomon had seventy thousand workers who carried heavy loads, and eighty thousand who cut stone in the mountains.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse shows the massive scale of Solomon's building projects, requiring 150,000 workers just for manual labor and stone cutting.
📚 Historical Context
This verse describes the enormous workforce Solomon assembled to build the temple in Jerusalem and his other construction projects. The numbers reflect the prosperity and organizational capacity of Israel during Solomon's reign (around 970-930 BC). These workers were likely a combination of Israelites fulfilling labor obligations and foreign workers from conquered peoples.
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