“King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 5 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.