11 and Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred twenty thousand bushels[a] of wheat as food for his household and one hundred twenty thousand gallons[b] of oil from crushed olives.(A) Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.

12 The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him.(B) There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.(C)

Solomon’s Workforce

13 Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel;(D) the labor force numbered thirty thousand men.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:11 Lit 20,000 cors
  2. 5:11 LXX reads 20,000 baths; MT reads 20 cors

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