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Solomon's Workers

13 Solomon ordered 30,000 people from all over Israel to cut logs for the temple, 14 (A) and he put Adoniram in charge of these workers. Solomon divided them into three groups of 10,000. Each group worked one month in Lebanon and had two months off at home.

15 He also had 80,000 workers to cut stone in the hill country of Israel, 70,000 workers to carry the stones,

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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,

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