World English Bible
1 Kings 5:13
“King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.”
1 Kings 5:13 in the King James Version
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.Read 1 Kings 5:13 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 5
Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.
Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a treaty together.
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
Cross references for 1 Kings 5:13
- 1 Kings 9:15
This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 4:6
and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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