1 Kings 5:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ King Solomon raised a levy [of forced labor] out of all Israel; and the levy was 30,000 men.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Common English Bible

¹³ King Solomon called up a work gang of thirty thousand workers from all over Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

2 Chronicles 10:4

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

2 Chronicles 8:8

of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day.