1 Kings 5:15

13 Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; ^aAdoniram was in charge of the labor force.

15 ^aSolomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains,

16 besides three thousand¹ three hundred from the ^achiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.

17 And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and ^ahewn stones, to lay the foundation of the¹ temple.

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1 Kings 5:15

That bare burdens ... - Compare the marginal references. These laborers, whose services were continuous, consisted of "strangers" - "the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites" - whom Solomon, following the example of his father I Chronicles 22:2, condemned to slavery, and employed in this way.

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