1 Kings 5:15 Cross References - ISV

¹⁵ Solomon also employed 70,000 heavy-lift workers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country.

²⁰ The people who survived from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not related to the Israelis, ²¹ and whose descendants had survived them and continued to live in the land because the Israelis were unable to completely eliminate them, Solomon placed under conscripted labor, a situation that remains in effect to this day. ²² However, Solomon did not force Israelis into conscripted labor, but they did serve as his soldiers, servants, princes, captains, chariot commanders, and cavalry.

¹⁷ Solomon took a census of all the non-Israeli men who lived in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had taken, and 153,600 were counted. ¹⁸ He conscripted 70,000 of them to do heavy work, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 men to supervise the people.

⁷ Conscripted LaborersAll of the survivors who remained living in the land but who were not Israelis (including Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) ⁸ were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not eliminated. Solomon put them to work as conscripted laborers, which they continue to do to this day. ⁹ However, Solomon never made conscripted laborers from among the Israelis, but they did serve as his army, as his chief captains, and as commanders in charge of his chariots and cavalry.

⁵⁸ All of the Temple Servants and descendants of Solomon’s servants numbered 392.

⁵⁷ The Descendants of Solomon’s Servants:
Descendants of Sotai, Sophereth, and Perida,

⁶⁰ All of the Temple Servants and descendants of Solomon’s servants numbered 392.