1 Kings 5:14
Good News Translation
and put Adoniram in charge of them. He divided them into three groups of 10,000 men, and each group spent one month in Lebanon and two months back home.

New Revised Standard Version
He sent them to the Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be a month in the Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

Contemporary English Version
and he put Adoniram in charge of these workers. Solomon divided them into three groups of 10,000. Each group worked one month in Lebanon and had two months off at home.

New American Bible
He sent them to the Lebanon for a month in relays of ten thousand, so that they spent one month in the Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.

a month

1 Kings 4:7-19 And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and for his house hold: for every one provided necessaries, each man his month in the year. . . .

1 Chronicles 27:1-15 Now the children of Israel according to their number, the heads of families, captains of thousands and of hundreds, and officers, that served the king according to their companies, who came in and went out every month in the year, under every chief were four and twenty thousand. . . .

Adoniram

1 Kings 4:6 And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the son of Abda, over the tribute.

Context
Solomon's Workmen and Laborers
13And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the levy was of thirty thousand men. 14And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.15And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:…
Cross References
1 Kings 4:6
And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the son of Abda, over the tribute.

1 Kings 12:18
Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all Israel stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get him up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:

2 Chronicles 10:18
And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the children of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste to get up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.

1 Kings 5:13
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