Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all. Cross References 1 Kings 5:15 Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, 1 Chronicles 22:2 So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God. Treasury of Scripture And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. numbered 2 Chronicles 2:2 2 Chronicles 8:7,8 1 Kings 5:13-16 1 Chronicles 22:2 |