13 King Solomon drafted (A)forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. 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. (B)Adoniram was in charge of the draft. 15 Solomon also (C)had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, 16 besides Solomon's 3,300 (D)chief officers who were over the work, (E)who had charge of the people who carried on the work. 17 At the king's command (F)they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. 18 So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and (G)the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

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