John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 5:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, etc.] Seventy thousand to carry the stones from the mountains out of which they were dug, and which were near Jerusalem, to the city; these were strangers in Israel, as were those that follow: and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains: eighty thousand that dug the stones out of the quarries, and squared them; these, with the others, made 150,000, (see <140217>2 Chronicles 2:17); according to Jacob Leon f83, the number of workmen at the temple for seven years was 163,600, and some make them more.

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