Add parallel Print Page Options

Solomon’s Workforce

13 Then King Solomon drafted forced labourers from all Israel;(A) the labour force numbered thirty thousand men. 14 He sent ten thousand to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labour. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,(B) 16 not including his three thousand three hundred[a] foremen(C) in charge of the work. They supervised the people doing the work.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 5:16 Some LXX mss read 3,600; 2Ch 2:2,18