1 Kings 5:14-16
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14 He sent them to the Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be a month in the Lebanon and two months at home;[a] Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.(A) 15 Solomon also had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country,(B) 16 besides Solomon’s three thousand three hundred supervisors who were over the work, having charge of the people who did the work.
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- 5.14 Or at his palace
1 Kings 5:14-16
King James Version
14 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 levy.
15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
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