Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 5:15 — And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
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threescore   These were all strangers, or proselytes, dwelling among the Israelites, as we learn from the paralled place in 2 Chron. 2Ch 9:20-22; 2Ch 2:17,18; 2Ch 8:7-9; Ezr 2:58; Neh 7:57,60
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2Ch 9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold: none [were of] silver; it was [not] any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
2Ch 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2Ch 9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
2Ch 2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2Ch 2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
2Ch 8:7 [As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,
2Ch 8:8 [But] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
2Ch 8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
Ezr 2:58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two.
Neh 7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
Neh 7:60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, [were] three hundred ninety and two.

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Scott, Thomas. "1 Kings 5:15," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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