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1 Kings 5:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Kings 5:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.(A)
13 King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy numbered thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them to the Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be a month in the Lebanon and two months at home;[a] Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.(B)
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- 5.14 Or at his palace
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