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 8:10
Context8:10 These men worked for Solomon as supervisors; there were a total of 250 of them who were in charge of the people. 5
2 Chronicles 34:17
Context34:17 They melted down the silver in the Lord’s temple 6 and handed it over to the supervisors of the construction foremen.”
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 “these [were] the officials of the governors who belonged to the king, Solomon, 250, the ones ruling over the people.”
6 tn Heb “that was found in the house of the
