American Standard Version
"These 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. "
— 1 Kings 9:23, American Standard Version
“These 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.”
“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.”
“These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers.”
“And 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.”
“These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.”
“These 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.”
As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
their children that 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 unto this day.
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.
These 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.
But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah, burning incense therewith, upon the altar that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.