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1 Kings 5:14-18

1 Kings 5:14

Then he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they were in Lebanon for a month, and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced laborers.

1 Kings 5:15

Now Solomon had seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand stonemasons in the mountains,

1 Kings 5:16

besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the project and ruled over the people who were doing the work.

1 Kings 5:17

Then the king issued orders, and they quarried large stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.

1 Kings 5:18

So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut the stones, and they prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.