1 Kings 5:13 - The Scriptures 1998

¹³ And Sovereign Shelomoh raised up compulsory labour out of all Yisra’ĕ

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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.

1 Kings 5:13 Cross References

1 Kings 4:6

and Aḥ

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the purpose of the compulsory labour which Sovereign Shelomoh raised, to build the House of יהוה, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Yerushalayim, and Ḥ

2 Chronicles 10:4

“Your father made our yoke hard, and now, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, then we shall serve you.”

2 Chronicles 8:8

their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Yisra’ĕ