1 Kings 5:13

13 King Shlomo raised a levy out of all Yisra'el; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

1 Kings 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 5:13

And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel
Not of money, but of men, as follows:

and the levy was thirty thousand men;
for what purpose, and how they were employed, ( 1 Kings 5:14 ) shows.

1 Kings 5:13 In-Context

11 Shlomo gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Shlomo to Hiram year by year.

12 The LORD gave Shlomo wisdom, as he promised him; and there was shalom between Hiram and Shlomo; and they two made a league together.

13 King Shlomo raised a levy out of all Yisra'el; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

14 He sent them to Levanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Levanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

15 Shlomo had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;