23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.


In Context

20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.

22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

23 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

25 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

1 Kings 9:23 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:23They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon's projects-550 officials supervising the men who did the work.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:23These [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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:23And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:23These 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23These were the chief superintendents that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:23These were the chief officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23These 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23These 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:23These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bore rule over the people that worked in the work.