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.


In Context

20 The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who are not of the sons of Israel —

21 their sons who are left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel have not been able to devote — he hath even lifted up on them a tribute of service unto this day.

22 And out of the sons of Israel Solomon hath not appointed a servant, for they are the men of war, and his servants, and his heads, and his captains, and the heads of his chariots, and his horsemen.

23 These 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.

24 Only, the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David unto her house that Solomon built for her; then he built Millo.

25 And Solomon caused to ascend, three times in a year, burnt-offerings and peace-offerings on the altar that he built to Jehovah, and he perfumed it with that which is before Jehovah, and 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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

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.