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1 Kings 5:14

American Standard Version

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.

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1 Kings 5:14 in other translations

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 context

  1. 12And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
  2. 13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
  3. 14And 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.
  4. 15And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
  5. 16besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.