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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;[a] the work groups were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; now Adoniram was over the forced labor. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand common laborers[b] and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:14 Literally “in the month”
  2. 1 Kings 5:15 Literally “carrying burden”