1 Kings 5:13-18

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13 And ^aKing Solomon raised up forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers ¹numbered 30,000 men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in ¹shifts; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And ^aAdoniram was over the forced laborers. 15 And ^aSolomon had 70,000 ¹who carried loads, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains, 16 ^abesides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the ¹project and who ²ruled over the people who were doing the work. 17 Then ^athe king commanded, and they quarried great stones, precious stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. 18 So Solomon’s builders and ¹Hiram’s builders and ^athe Gebalites ²carved them out, and prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.