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12 Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised to him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made[a] a covenant.

13 Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor numbered thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand every month;[b] the work groups were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; now Adoniram was over the forced labor.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:12 Literally “cut”
  2. 1 Kings 5:14 Literally “in the month”