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A large group of conscripted Israelite workers assembles under supervisors before a shift in Lebanon; show labor as obligation, not voluntary festivity.
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1 Kings 5:27-28

The labor levy

1 Kings 5 · 1 Kings 5

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27King Solomon conscripted forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor was thirty thousand men.

28He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be in Lebanon one month and two months at home, and Adoniram was over the forced labor.

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