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1 Kings 5:13-16
Holman Christian Standard Bible
1 Kings 5:13-16
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Solomon’s Work Force
13 Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel;(A) the labor force numbered 30,000 men. 14 He sent 10,000 to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. 15 Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,(B) 16 not including his 3,300[a] deputies(C) in charge of the work. They ruled over the people doing the work.
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- 1 Kings 5:16 Some LXX mss read 3,600; 2Ch 2:2,18
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.
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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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