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Preparations for Building the Temple

[a] Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the Lord, and a royal palace for himself. [b]And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to bear burdens and eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:1 Ch 1.18 in Heb
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:2 Ch 2.1 in Heb

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