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A Conscripted Foreign Workforce
Commentators like Albert Barnes and John Gill clarify that this massive workforce of 150,000 men was not composed of Israelites. Instead, Solomon conscripted "strangers"—the remaining Canaanite peoples (Hittites, Amorites, etc.) living in the land—for the hard labor of quarrying and hauling stone.
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Kings 5:15
18th Century
Theologian
Those who bore burdens... - Compare the marginal references. These laborers, whose services were continuous, consisted of strangers…
Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Kings 5:15
19th Century
Preacher
What were their names? I cannot tell you, but probably there was a book in which they were all recorded, and Christ has many humble workers, hewers…
John Gill
On 1 Kings 5:15
17th Century
Pastor
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens ,
&c.] Seventy thousand to carry the stones from the m…
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 5:10–18
17th Century
Minister
The temple was chiefly built by the riches and labor of Gentiles, which typified their calling into the church. Solomon commanded, and they brought…