1 Kings 5:14-16
English Standard Version Anglicised
14 And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. (A)Adoniram was in charge of the draft. 15 Solomon also (B)had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, 16 besides Solomon's 3,300 (C)chief officers who were over the work, (D)who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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1 Kings 5:14-16
New International Version
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(A) 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(B) who supervised the project and directed the workers.
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- 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred
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