◄ 2 Chronicles 2:2 ►
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Good News Translation
He put 70,000 men to work transporting materials, and 80,000 to work cutting stone in the hill country. There were 3,600 others responsible for supervising the work.

New Revised Standard Version
Solomon conscripted seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country, with three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

Contemporary English Version
He assigned 70,000 men to carry building supplies and 80,000 to cut stone from the hills. And he chose 3,600 men to supervise these workers.

New American Bible
Solomon conscripted seventy thousand men to carry stones and eighty thousand to cut the stones in the mountains, and over these he placed three thousand six hundred overseers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

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2 Chronicles 2:18 And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.

1 Kings 5:15,16 And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain: . . .

Context
Preparations for the Temple
1And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of the Lord, and a palace for himself. 2And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.3He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with David my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in which he dwelt:…
Cross References
Joshua 9:21
But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,

1 Kings 5:15
And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

1 Kings 5:16
Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.

2 Chronicles 2:18
And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.

2 Chronicles 2:1
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