1 Kings 5:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

King Solomon raised a levy of forced labor out of all Israel; and the levy numbered thirty thousand men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

King Solomon raised a levy [of forced labor] out of all Israel; and the levy was 30,000 men.

American Standard Version (1901)

And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Common English Bible

King Solomon called up a work gang of thirty thousand workers from all over Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And king Solomon chose workers from all of Israel, and the conscription was of thirty thousand men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel: and the levy was of thirty thousand men.

1 Kings 5:13 Cross References

1 Kings 4:6

Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer

2 Chronicles 10:4

“Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you.”

2 Chronicles 8:8

from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon made a forced levy and so they are to this day.