1 Kings 9:23
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
1 Kings 9:23 in other translations
| BSB | They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work. |
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| WEB | These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work. |
| ASV | These were the chief officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work. |
| YLT | These are the heads of the officers who are over the work of Solomon, fifty and five hundred, those ruling among the people who are labouring in the work. |
| DARBY | These were the chief superintendents that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people that wrought in the work. |
| BBE | These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work. |
| Webster | These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work. |
What does 1 Kings 9:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 9:15-25
15-24. this is the reason of the levy--A levy refers both to men and money, and the necessity for Solomon making it arose from the many gigantic works he undertook to erect. Millo--part of the fort of Jerusalem on Mount Zion (2Sa 5:9; 1Ch 11:8), or a row of stone bastions around Mount Zion, Millo being the great corner tower of that fortified wall (1Ki 11:27; 2Ch 32:5). the wall of Jerusalem--either repairing some…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 9:15-28
Here is a further account of Solomon's greatness. He began at the right end, for he built God's house first, and finished that before he began his own; then God blessed him, and he prospered in all his other buildings. Let piety begin, and profit follow; leave pleasure to the last. Whatever pains we take for the glory of God, and to profit others, we are likely to have the advantage. Canaan, the holy land, the glory…
1 Kings 9:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 9:23
- 1 Kings 5:16
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.
- 2 Chronicles 8:10
And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
- 2 Chronicles 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.
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Context
- 1 Kings 9:22
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
- 1 Kings 9:23
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
- 1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
1 Kings 9:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y los que Salomón había hecho jefes y prepósitos sobre las obras, eran quinientos y cincuenta, los cuales estaban sobre el pueblo que trabajaba en aquella obra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | C’est ici le nombre des chefs des intendants qui étaient établis sur l’ouvrage de Salomon: 550, qui avaient autorité sur le peuple qui faisait l’ouvrage. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dies sind die Oberaufseher, welche über das Werk Salomos waren: 550, die über das Volk walteten, das an dem Werke arbeitete. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Erant autem principes super omnia opera Salomonis præpositi quingenti quinquaginta, qui habebant subjectum populum, et statutis operibus imperabant. |