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1 Kings 5:13-16
New American Standard Bible 1995
1 Kings 5:13-16
New American Standard Bible 1995
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, 16 (D)besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the [d]project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.
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- 1 Kings 5:13 Lit raised up
- 1 Kings 5:13 Lit was
- 1 Kings 5:15 Or burden bearers
- 1 Kings 5:16 Lit work
1 Kings 5:13-16
New International Version
1 Kings 5:13-16
New International Version
13 King Solomon conscripted laborers(A) from all Israel—thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram(B) was in charge of the forced labor. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(C) who supervised the project and directed the workers.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred
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