Conscription of Laborers

13 Now (A)King Solomon [a]levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers [b]numbered 30,000 men. 14 He sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in relays; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And (B)Adoniram was over the forced laborers. 15 Now (C)Solomon had 70,000 [c]transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 5:13 Lit raised up
  2. 1 Kings 5:13 Lit was
  3. 1 Kings 5:15 Or burden bearers