1 Kings 5:15 Meaning and Explanation
“And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;”
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Read Full Chapter →Solomon also has seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand stonecutters working in the mountains.
What Does 1 Kings 5:15 Mean?
The narrator counts the larger workforce beyond the levy sent to Lebanon. Seventy thousand men carry burdens and eighty thousand quarry stone in the mountains. These vast numbers convey the sheer scale of the undertaking, a labor force of enormous size devoted to a single sacred building.
Behind the finished beauty of the temple lay the toil of countless unnamed workers. The burden-bearers and stonecutters will never be remembered by name, yet without them nothing would stand. So much of God's work is carried by hidden hands whose effort is known fully only to Him. Their labor is not lost. Every burden carried and every stone hewn for the house of the Lord is gathered up into a purpose far greater than any one worker could see.
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What does 1 Kings 5:15 mean?
Solomon also has seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand stonecutters working in the mountains.