World English Bible
1 Kings 5:14
“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 forced labor.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 5
12
Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a treaty together.
13
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
14
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 forced labor.
15
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
16
besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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