¹³ Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

Solomon’s Additional Achievements^(A)

¹⁵ And this is the reason for ^(B)the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house, ^[a]the ^(C)Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, ^(D)Hazor, ^(E)Megiddo, and ^(F)Gezer.

^20 (A)All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel— ²¹ that is, their descendants ^(B)who were left in the land after them, ^(C)whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely—^(D)from these Solomon raised ^(E)forced labor, as it is to this day.