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1 Kings 5:13

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

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  1. 1 Kings 5:11

    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.

  2. 1 Kings 5:12

    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.

  3. 1 Kings 5:14

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

  4. 1 Kings 5:15

    And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

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