1 Kings 5:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 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 labor. These were the persons over whom Adoniram was superintendent, and were all Israelites.