OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 5:14

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He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

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Verse 14. Levy, or tribute. The men had only to procure stones, as the Tyrians had engaged to do all which regarded the wood. Calmet.—These were Israelites. Menochius.

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