2 Chronicles 8:10
Good News Translation
There were 250 officials in charge of the forced labor working on the various building projects.

New Revised Standard Version
These were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred fifty of them, who exercised authority over the people.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon appointed 250 officers to be in charge of his workers.

New American Bible
They were also King Solomon’s two hundred and fifty overseers who directed the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.

two hundred

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 5:16 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.

1 Kings 9:23 And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.

Context
Solomon's Additional Accomplishments
9But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king's works: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his chariots and horsemen. 10And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.11And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it.…
Cross References
1 Kings 9:23
And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.

2 Chronicles 8:9
But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king's works: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his chariots and horsemen.

2 Chronicles 8:11
And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it.

2 Chronicles 8:9
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