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13 King Solomon raised a levy [of forced labor] out of all Israel; and the levy was 30,000 men.

14 He sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month by divisions; one month they were in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was over the levy.

15 And Solomon had 70,000 burden bearers and 80,000 hewers [of stone] in the hill country of Judah,

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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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