2 Chronicles 2:2
New Living Translation
2 [a]He enlisted a force of 70,000 laborers, 80,000 men to quarry stone in the hill country, and 3,600 foremen.
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- 2:2 Verses 2:2-18 are numbered 2:1-17 in Hebrew text.
2 Chronicles 2:2
New International Version
2 He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.(A)
2 Chronicles 2:2
King James Version
2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
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2 Chronicles 2:18
New Living Translation
18 He assigned 70,000 of them as common laborers, 80,000 as quarry workers in the hill country, and 3,600 as foremen.
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2 Chronicles 2:18
New International Version
18 He assigned(A) 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.
2 Chronicles 2:18
King James Version
18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
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1 Kings 5:15-16
New Living Translation
15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 quarry workers in the hill country, 16 and 3,600[a] foremen to supervise the work.
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1 Kings 5:15-16
New International Version
15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(A) who supervised the project and directed the workers.
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- 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred
1 Kings 5:15-16
King James Version
15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
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