1 Kings 5:16
not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.
Note Hebrew; some LXX manuscripts 3,600; see 2 Chronicles 2:18.
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.
besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- three thousand
- In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is "three thousand six hundred," which is also the reading of the Septuagint here.
- 1 Kings 9:23; 2 Chronicles 2:2