1 Kings 5:13

13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, 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 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household and twenty thousand measures of pure oil; this 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 the two made a covenant together.

13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men,

14 whom he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; they were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy.

15 And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;