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2 Chronicles 2:17-18
New Century Version
2 Chronicles 2:17-18
New Century Version
17 Solomon counted all the foreigners living in Israel. (This was after the time his father David had counted the people.) There were one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred foreigners in the country. 18 Solomon chose seventy thousand of them to carry loads, eighty thousand of them to cut stone in the mountains, and thirty-six hundred of them to direct the workers and to keep the people working.
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2 Chronicles 2:17-18
New International Version
2 Chronicles 2:17-18
New International Version
17 Solomon took a census of all the foreigners(A) residing in Israel, after the census(B) his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. 18 He assigned(C) 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 2:17-18
King James Version
2 Chronicles 2:17-18
King James Version
17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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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2 Chronicles 2:17-18
New King James Version
2 Chronicles 2:17-18
New King James Version
17 (A)Then Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census in which (B)David his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred. 18 And he made (C)seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
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2 Chronicles 2:17-18
English Standard Version
2 Chronicles 2:17-18
English Standard Version
17 Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, (A)after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600. 18 (B)Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
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