2 Chronicles 2:18

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

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KJV

King James Version

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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WEB

World English Bible

He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.

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ASV

American Standard Version

And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

2 Chronicles 2

¹⁶ We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”

¹⁷ Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.

¹⁸ Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

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