1 Kings 5:13

Christian Standard Bible ®

Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel; the labor force numbered 30,000 men.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And King Solomon raised up forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And king Solomon raysed a summe out of Israel, and the summe was thirtie thousand men:

Literal Translation
And King Solomon caused a labor force to go out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon forced 30,000 men of Israel to help in this work.

Revised Standard Version
King Solomon raised a levy of forced labor out of all Israel; and the levy numbered thirty thousand men.

World English Bible
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

King James Version (1611)
And King Solomon raised a leuie out of all Israel, and the leuie was thirtie thousand men.

King James Version
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Salomon made an outchosynge (of workmen) thorow out all Israel. And ye outchosynge was thirtie thousande me,

THE MESSAGE
King Solomon raised a workforce of thirty thousand men from all over Israel. He sent them in shifts of ten thousand each month to the Lebanon forest; they would work a month in Lebanon and then be at home two months. Adoniram was in charge of the work crew. Solomon also had seventy thousand unskilled workers and another eighty thousand stonecutters up in the hills—plus thirty-three hundred foremen managing the project and supervising the work crews. Following the king's orders, they quarried huge blocks of the best stone—dressed stone for the foundation of The Temple. Solomon and Hiram's construction workers, assisted by the men of Gebal, cut and prepared the timber and stone for building The Temple.

American Standard Version
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

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

Update Bible Version
And king Solomon raised slave labor out of all Israel; and the slave labor was thirty thousand men.

Webster's Bible Translation
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

New English Translation
King Solomon conscripted work crews from throughout Israel, 30,000 men in all.

New King James Version
Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon ordered thirty thousand people from all over Israel to cut logs for the temple,

Complete Jewish Bible
He could discuss trees, from the cedar in the L'vanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall; he could discuss wild animals, poultry, reptiles and fish.

Darby Translation
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And King Salomon raised a summe out of all Israel, and the summe was thirtie thousand men:

George Lamsa Translation
And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Amplified Bible
King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

New Living Translation
Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.

New Life Bible
Now King Solomon made men work for him from all Israel. There were 30,000 men made to work for him.

New Revised Standard
King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy numbered thirty thousand men.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.

English Revised Version
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Berean Standard Bible
Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of thirty thousand men from all Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And King Solomon raised a labour-band, out of all Israel, - and it came to pass that, the labour-band, was thirty thousand men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the levy was of thirty thousand men.

Lexham English Bible
Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor numbered thirty thousand men.

English Standard Version
King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.

New American Standard Bible
Now King Solomon conscripted forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered thirty thousand men.

New Century Version
King Solomon forced thirty thousand men of Israel to help in this work.

Good News Translation
King Solomon drafted 30,000 men as forced labor from all over Israel,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And kyng Salomon chees werk men of al Israel; and the summe was thretti thousynde of men.

Young's Literal Translation
And king Solomon lifteth up a tribute out of all Israel, and the tribute is thirty thousand men,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted, ¹¹ and Solomon provided Hiram with 100,000 bushels of wheat as food for his household and 110,000 gallons of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year. ¹² The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty. ¹³ Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel; the labor force numbered 30,000 men. ¹⁴ He sent 10,000 to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. ¹⁵ Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, ¹⁶ not including his 3,300 deputies in charge of the work. They ruled over the people doing the work. ¹⁷ The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. ¹⁸ So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple's construction.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

levy: Heb. tribute of men, 1 Kings 4:6

the levy: 1 Kings 9:15

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 5:1 - Hiram 1 Kings 9:21 - levy 2 Chronicles 2:17 - numbered 2 Chronicles 8:8 - to pay Ecclesiastes 5:11 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A levy out of all Israel - This was, apparently, the first time that the Israelites had been called upon to perform forced labor, though it had been prophesied 1 Samuel 8:16. David had bound to forced service “the strangers” 1 Chronicles 22:2; but hitherto the Israelites had escaped. Solomon now, in connection with his proposed work of building the temple, with the honor of God as an excuse, laid this burden upon them. Out of the 1,300, 000 able-bodied Israelites 2 Samuel 24:9, a band of 30,000 - one in forty-four - was raised, of whom one-third was constantly at work in Lebanon, while two-thirds remained at home, and pursued their usual occupations. This, though a very light form of task work, was felt as a great oppression, and was the chief cause of the revolt of the ten tribes at Solomon’s death 1 Kings 12:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 5:13. The levy was thirty thousand men. — We find from the following verse that only ten thousand were employed at once, and those only for one month at a time; and having rested two months, they again resumed their labour. These were the persons over whom Adoniram was superintendent, and were all Israelites.