1 Kings 9:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred fifty who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ These were the chief officers over Solomon's work, 550 who had charge of the people who did the work.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ 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.

Common English Bible

²³ These were the chief officers over Solomon’s work: five hundred fifty had charge of the people who did the work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Now there were five hundred fifty leaders in the first place over all the works of Solomon, and they had people subject to them, and these were given orders for the appointed works.

1 Kings 9:23 Cross References

1 Kings 5:16

besides Solomon’s three thousand three hundred supervisors who were over the work, having charge of the people who did the work.

2 Chronicles 8:10

These were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred fifty of them, who exercised authority over the people.

2 Chronicles 2:18

Seventy thousand of them he assigned as laborers, eighty thousand as stonecutters in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred as overseers to make the people work.