What does 1 Kings 5:16 mean?
ESV: besides Solomon 's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
NIV: as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers.
NASB: besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the project and ruled over the people who were doing the work.
CSB: not including his thirty-three hundred deputies in charge of the work. They supervised the people doing the work.
NLT: and 3,600 foremen to supervise the work.
KJV: 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.
NKJV: besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.
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This was originally the first half of a combined text. First Kings records the end of David's reign and the rule of Solomon. After this, the kingdom is split in two. The northern nation of Israel no longer submits to the king of the southern nation, called Judah. The prophet Elijah first appears in this book. The kings mostly fail to honor the Lord. They participate in idolatry and other sins. This will eventually result in their conquest and exile, as depicted throughout the books of Chronicles.
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