Thematic Bible: Solomon drafts men for the building of

And Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

Verse Concepts

ConscriptionMasonsOverseersSkill

StonesThree Thousand And UpFifty To Ninety Thousand

And king Solomon raised a conscription out of all Israel, and the conscription was thirty thousand men. And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses. They were in Lebanon a month, and at home two months. And Adoniram was over the men subject to task work. And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were hewers in the mountains, read more.
besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work: three thousand and three hundred who bore rule over the people that labored in the work.

And Solomon numbered all the aliens that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them. And they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred. And he set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people to work.