15 Now, let my lord send the wheat, barley, oil, and wine to his servants as promised.(A) 16 We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and bring them to you as rafts by sea to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.(B)

Solomon’s Workforce

17 Solomon took a census of all the resident alien men in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had conducted,(C) and the total was 153,600.

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