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.

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.