1 Kings 5:13

And King Solomon raised a levy [Marg; tribute of men, i.e; conscription] out of all Israel [ i.e; the people, not the land—Ewald] and the levy was thirty thousand men. [That is, if we may trust the figures of the census given in 2 Samuel 24:9 (which do not agree, however, with those of 1 Chronicles 21:5 ), the conscription only affected one in forty of the male population. But even the lower estimate of Samuel is regarded with some suspicion. Such a levy was predicted ( 1 Samuel 8:16 ).