11 and Solomon provided Hiram with 100,000 bushels[a] of wheat as food for his household and 110,000 gallons[b] of oil from crushed olives.(A) Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.

12 The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him.(B) There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.(C)

Solomon’s Work Force

13 Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel;(D) the labor force numbered 30,000 men.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:11 Lit 20,000 cors
  2. 1 Kings 5:11 LXX reads 20,000 baths; MT reads 20 cors

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