2 Chronicles 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had 70,000 common laborers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors.


tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek mss there read “thirty-six hundred” in agreement with 2 Chr 2:2, 18.

tn Heb “and 3,600 supervisors over them.”