¹³ King Solomon conscripted laborers^(A) from all Israel—thirty thousand men.

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^(A) was in charge of the forced labor.

¹⁵ Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted^(A) to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,^[a](B) the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor,^(C) Megiddo and Gezer.^(D)

²¹ Solomon conscripted the descendants^(A) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate^[a](B)—to serve as slave labor,^(C) as it is to this day.