1 Kings 5:13
(5-27) And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 4:6and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.
2 Chronicles 8:8of 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.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 5:11-18
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. 13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a… Read the whole commentary →