SIL Translator’s Notes on 1 Kings 5:15

5:15 Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

Solomon had seventy thousand ⌊stone⌋ movers/carriers and eighty thousand stone masons in the hill country.
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There were also seventy thousand men to carry heavy loads and eighty thousand men/artisans to cut stones. These men worked for Solomon in the hilly/mountainous country.

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