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1 Kings 5:13
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 5:13 · World English Bible
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1 Kings 5:13 in other translations
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
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In context
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
12 The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.
13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
14 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.
15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains,
16 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
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