1 Kings 5:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

Cross References

1 Kings 4:6

Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.

1 Kings 9:15

Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

2 Chronicles 10:4

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

2 Chronicles 8:8

Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;