Discovery Box2 Chronicles 2:2 
Context2:2 (2:1) Solomon had 1 70,000 common laborers 2 and 80,000 stonecutters 3 in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. 4
2 Chronicles 2:18
Context2:18 He designated 5 70,000 as common laborers, 6 80,000 as stonecutters 7 in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work. 8
1 tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
3 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
4 tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek
tn Heb “and 3,600 supervisors over them.”
5 tn Heb “made.”
6 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
7 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
8 tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”
