1 Kings 5
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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Kings 5:13-16

13Now 1King Solomon 2levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers 3numbered 30,000 men.

14He sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in relays; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And 4Adoniram was over the forced laborers.

15Now 5Solomon had 70,000 6transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains,

167besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the 8project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 5:13 1 Kin 4:6; 9:15 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 5:13 Lit raised up ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 5:13 Lit was ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 5:14 1 Kin 4:6; 12:18 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Kings 5:15 1 Kin 9:20-22; 2 Chr 2:17, 18 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Kings 5:15 Or burden bearers ↩
  7. 7. 1 Kings 5:16 1 Kin 9:23 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Kings 5:16 Lit work ↩

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