“These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.”
1 Kings 9:23 (WEB)
Context Reading
21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy — of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. 22But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 23These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work. 24But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo. 25Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.