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1 Kings 5:14

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He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

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1 Kings 5:14 in other translations

And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.

1 Kings 5:14 · American Standard Version

1 Kings 5:14 in context

  1. 12Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.
  2. 13King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
  3. 14He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
  4. 15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
  5. 16besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.