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.

2 Chronicles 2:18

2:18 He designated 70,000 as common laborers, 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.


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.”

tn Heb “made.”

tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

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

tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”