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14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of[a] the work crews. 15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers[b] and 80,000 stonecutters[c] in the hills, 16 besides 3,300 officials[d] who supervised the workers.[e]

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  1. 1 Kings 5:14 tn Heb “was over.”
  2. 1 Kings 5:15 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
  3. 1 Kings 5:15 tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).
  4. 1 Kings 5:16 tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.
  5. 1 Kings 5:16 tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

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(A) was in charge of the forced labor. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(B) who supervised the project and directed the workers.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred