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11 and Solomon provided Hiram with four million four hundred thousand litres[a] of wheat as food for his household and four hundred and forty thousand litres[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 labourers from all Israel;(D) the labour 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