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|1 Reyes 5:11|
and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors [That is, probably about 121,000 bushels (about 4,400 kilolitres)] of wheat as food for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths [Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 2:10); Hebrew twenty cors] [That is, about 97,000 gallons (about 440 kilolitres)] of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year.
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|1 Reyes 5:12|
The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised him. There were peaceful relations between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
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|1 Reyes 5:13|
King Solomon conscripted labourers from all Israel — thirty thousand men.
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|1 Reyes 5:14|
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 was in charge of the forced labour.
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|1 Reyes 5:15|
Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,
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|1 Reyes 5:16|
as well as thirty-three hundred [Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2, 18) thirty-six hundred] foremen who supervised the project and directed the workmen.
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|1 Reyes 5:17|
At the king’s command they removed from the quarry large blocks of quality stone to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple.
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|1 Reyes 5:18|
The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and the men of Gebal [That is, Byblos] cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.
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